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Who is the fellow that Ernest Hemingway used for the character that was the Princeton boxing champ in "The Sun Also Rises"?
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#48404. Asked by yeaux. (Jun 14 04 8:38 PM)
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McGruff
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Harold Loeb
Loeb was an American expatriate in Paris and the editor of a little magazine called Broom, which published work by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, and e.e. cummings. Loeb was also the model for the character with whom Hemingway begins The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926: "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton."
http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW98-99/04-1104/1104feat.html
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