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Literary Notes: &#;George Dixon&#; by Jason Winders
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER &#; George Dixon was boxing&#;s first Black world champion.
&#;For a decade leading into the twentieth century,&#; Jason Winders writes, &#;few Black men were as wealthy and none were more famous. To a Black culture cementing its first national heroes, Dixon was the single-most significant athlete of nineteenth-century America. He fought constantly as a professional &#; maybe against a thousand opponents in his lifetime. While most were exhibitions against rather faceless foes, a hundred or so of those bouts were chronicled by both Black and white presses. A half dozen came to define an era.&#;
In George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing&#;s First Black World Champion, (University of Arkansas Press), Winders gives readers a well-researched, well-written, entertaining account of this remarkable man.
Dixon was born on the outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 29, Quite possibly, one of his grandf
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Missionaries in the jungle
The journey of Scarboro Missions in the Brazilian Amazon
By Fr. Ron MacDonell, S.F.M.
January/February
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In Brazil’s vast Amazon jungle at a place where the Amazon River is at its narrowest lies the small city of Itacoatiara, meaning “Painted Rock” in the Tupi language. Five young Scarboro missionary priests arrived here in to begin their witness to Christ. Baptism, the celebration of the Eucharist and other sacraments were the main focus of the ung priests as they served the various parishes along the riverbanks. They travelled by boat and canoe to the small towns and villages where the riverside dwellers eked out a living by fishing and farming cassava root.
The People of God
One of the priests, Fr. Paul McHugh, was appointed the first bishop of the newly created Prelacy of Itacoatiara in A prelacy is a new church distrikt assigned to a religious congregation until it is s
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George Hall Dixon
George Hall Dixon | |
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| Born | ()October 7, |
| Died | 28 June () (aged&#;92)[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Chairman & CEO, US Bank |
George Hall Dixon Jr. (October 7, – June 28, ) served as president of First National Bank of Minneapolis and First Bank System (now US Bank), and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Gerald Ford.[2]
Early life
[edit]Dixon was born in Rochester, New York on October 7, , the older of two children. Though his father died in debt during his teens, Dixon managed to keep the family together and graduated from John Marshall High School in As a young man, Dixon played tennis and earned the rank of Eagle Scout. As a Boy Scout, he travelled to the World Jamboree in the Netherlands in He enrolled in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a degree in business in
Military service
[edit]Following the declaration of war on Japan, Dixon enlist