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Thu 09 Sep 2010Unlikely tale of the playwright and the pugilist
AMERICA AT LARGE:World heavyweight champion Gene Tunney enjoyed a long friendship with George Bernard Shaw, a boxing aficionado
FOUR YEARS ago I was a participant, along with the late Budd Schulberg, sportscaster Jeremy Schaap and Jay Tunney, in a panel discussion at the Irish Arts Center in New York. At some point in the evening I recall turning to Jay and telling him how much I’d have loved to have been a fly on the wall at some of those famously elegant soirees his parents hosted at Star Meadow Farm, their palatial Connecticut estate, “if only to eavesdrop on the dinner conversation between Roy Rogers and George Bernard Shaw”.
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