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When reporter Brian Bell stepped into the tiny mountain cabin where boxer Gene Tunney lived while training for a fight, he noticed books piled near Tunney’s bed. “What are you reading?” Bell asked. “The Way of All Flesh, an autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler,” Tunney replied. The boxer said he’d bought the book for 50 …
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