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Come celebrate Reader's Digest's 100th anniversary with a century of funny jokes, moving quotes, heartwarming stories, and riveting dramas. The post 100 Years of Reader’s Digest: People, Stories ...
ISSN. 0034-0375. Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer ...
The post 32 of the Most Memorable Reader’s Digest Stories Ever appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... In the real-life Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners sprung themselves from a German POW camp ...
Hank Kaplan (April 15, 1920 – December 14, 2007) was an American boxing historian and writer. Always wearing one of many of his prized boxing baseball caps, and smoking a pipe, he is widely regarded as the nation's foremost boxing historian, and was known and respected worldwide. [1] Kaplan was known to possess the largest collection of ...
The Real Rocky: 2011 Documentary Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Profiles Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. Knockout: 2011 Drama A janitor (Steve Austin) teaches boxing skills to a student who's up against bullies. Real Steel: 2011 Science fiction Boxing robots, starring Hugh Jackman. Klitschko ...
Barney Ross (born Dov-Ber "Beryl" David Rosofsky; December 23, 1909 – January 17, 1967) was an American professional boxer. Ross became a world champion in three weight divisions and was a decorated veteran of World War II. [1] In his time, he was known as the Pride of the Ghetto. [2][3][4][5][6]
The post “Reader’s Digest Saved My Life!”: 12 People Share Their Incredible Stories appeared first on Reader's Digest. Grateful readers recount how our magazine got them diagnoses, treatment ...
The Contender is the debut novel by American author and sports journalist Robert Lipsyte. It was published in 1967. The book's plot centers on a black seventeen-year-old man named Alfred Brooks, a high school dropout living with Aunt Pearl and her three daughters in Harlem, New York City. He begins training at a boxing club as an alternative to ...