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...Chicago, a regulation of the Illinois State Athletic Commission makes it obligatory to score prizefights by points, ten to a round. When Lightweight Champion Tony Canzoneri had finished defending his title last week against a sad faced young Hebrew named Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) the referee gave both fighters 50 points. One of the judges gave Ross 52. Canzoneri 48. The other judge gave Ross 53, Canzoneri 47. That made Ross the new champion but the sweltering crowd in the Chicago Stadium, believing that to win a championship a man should do more than fight ten clever defensive rounds without...
Died. Leah Barnato Blackwell, 40, England's "Queen of Diamonds," daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barnett ("Barney") Barnato, divorced last month from Carlyle Blackwell, oldtime cinemactor (TIME, April 3); of heart disease; in London...
Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville...
...star of the Harrimans being in the ascendant, at 35 he became a vice president of the Merchants National. Meanwhile his uncle had tussled with Hill and his Cousin Anne had married William K. Vanderbilt. Young Joe became a person of at least social consequence. He married Augusta Barney of Jersey City Heights and like his cousins William Averell and Edward Roland Harriman set out to carve himself a career...
...directors immediately elected Barney Balaban, longtime secretary-treasurer and financial head of the company. Oldest of seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into the theatre business before the War, organized B. & K. with Sam Katz in 1917. He had three brothers in B. & K. with him, one of whom, John, was elected last week to succeed him as secretary-treasurer. One brother is dead; one left the show business to become a Christian Science reader. Barney Balaban is 46, bald, quiet, reserved, able. He rides horseback...