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Popeye The Whaler Man
Franz Lidz
March 11, 1985
Heavyweight champ Larry Holmes will be in deep water if David Bey can biff like his comic-book idol
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March 11, 1985

Popeye The Whaler Man

Heavyweight champ Larry Holmes will be in deep water if David Bey can biff like his comic-book idol

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In the meantime Bey is content to wander through Hefner's fabulous fantasy fortress. "This place is something else!" he fairly shouts. But Bey is not really at home here. When he spies Robin Williams down the hall, he looks relieved. The two trade punches like old pals.

"He seems much too nice and gentle to be a boxer," says Williams. But he's reluctant to come right out and say that Bey embodies the greater virtues of Pop-eye. "There is no greater virtue than Pop-eye's," Williams says. "He's honest, straightforward and upstanding; he yam what he yam, and he is what he is."

"What he means, Jack," interjects Bey, "is that I be what I be."

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