NP - But a few minutes well spent

[Charles Albert]

*Back in 1922, the late Heywood Broun, who is not remembered primarily as a
boxing writer, wrote a durable account of a combat between the late Benny
Leonard and the late Rocky Kansas for the lightweight championship of the
world. Leonard was the greatest practitioner of the era, Kansas just a
rough, optimistic fellow. In the early rounds, Kansas messed Leonard about,
and Broun was profoundly disturbed. A radical in politics, he was a
conservative in the arts, and Kansas made him think of Gertrude Stein, les
Six, and nonrepresentational painting, all of them novelties that irritated
him.http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1955/10/08/ahab-and-nemesis
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1955/10/08/ahab-and-nemesis>*
love,

cfa
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