Eugene R Schoor was a New York-based author, journalist, ghost-writer, college boxing instructor, Florida state amateur boxing title holder, Navy Public Information Officer, public relations man, sports agent, boxing promoter, and restaurateur.
11 Facts About Gene Schoor
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Gene Schoor is best known as the author of "juvenile" sports biographies.
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Gene Schoor began boxing no later than April 1933, when he won a bout as a welterweight.
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Gene Schoor's clients included Jayne Mansfield, Cindy Adams and Bess Myerson.
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Gene Schoor wrote the best-seller Young John Kennedy, a book for adults which drew on extensive interviews with Kennedy intimates and letters from Kennedy to his family.
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Gene Schoor wrote a library's worth of sports biographies for children in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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In 1960, Gene Schoor sued former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, claiming that Marciano had punched him during a dispute over Gene Schoor's work as Marciano's ghost-writer.
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In 1975 Gene Schoor was engaged in a dispute over the sale of letters from a young John Kennedy to his parents, which Gene Schoor had used extensively in his work.
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In 1994, Gene Schoor sued Kennedy biographer Nigel Hamilton and publisher Random House for $20 million, claiming that material in the defendants' best-selling book JFK: Reckless Youth had been appropriated, without payment or proper acknowledgment, from Gene Schoor's research files.
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Gene Schoor was represented by "heavyweight lawyer" Barry Slotnick.
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Gene Schoor's wife had died, he had no other family [note: Appel adds a postscript suggesting Schoor had an illegitimate son], and the nursing home costs depleted all of his remaining money.