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Widow of boxing champion Gene Tunney dies at age 100; 1928 wedding was a media sensation
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Polly Lauder Tunney, the Carnegie Steel Co. heiress whose marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney made international headlines in 1928, died Saturday. She was 100.
Tunney died at her home in Stamford, a son said.
Mary "Polly" Lauder was 21 when she married Tunney in Italy in 1928, a year after he successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long count" fight in Chicago. Her husband died in 1978.
The engagement of Tunney, who escaped a childhood of poverty through his boxing prowess, and his heiress ...
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