Long friendship with Gene Tunney was one that George Bernard Shaw could count on

Eoin O’Callaghan on the curious friendship between a boxing legend and a Nobel Prize winning author.

Long friendship with Gene Tunney was one that George Bernard Shaw could count on

No one knows for sure but plenty speculate there were as many as 150,000 people inside Chicago’s Soldier Field that night.

The less fortunate huddled around crackly radio transistors. They tuned in from far and wide - even in Greenland, where two scientists from the University of Michigan paused their iceberg research trip long enough to follow along with NBC’s coverage, delivered by the legendary Graham McNamee.

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