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Somebody once asked Jack Sharkey which of the two men was the greatest heavyweight champion since he had fought them both. Said Sharkey: "Jack Dempsey. If you put him and Joe Louis in a telephone booth to settle it, the guy who'd come out would be Dempsey." The Manassa Mauler is 27 Ibs. over his 188-lb. fighting weight these days. But he walks with the same alert, catlike grace, and he still looks fit to fight his way out of a telephone booth -or most any place else. As Dempsey celebrated his 70th birthday in his Manhattan...
...that evening by person or persons unknown. Two Circulation Desk attendants, Lawrence Corbett and Alfrado Ochoa, followed their noses and found a shoebox containing one bomb outside the door of the south entrance to the Reading Room. Soon afterwards, an unidentified law student discovered the second in a phone booth at the south stairwell in the basement...
...North Yard Janitor, Owen Roberts, reported that he arrived on duty at 11 p.m. to find three other janitors engaged in a futile attempt to fumigate the phone booth. "We cleaned it for three hours, but the smell's still there," Roberts said "I suggested in my report to Buildings and Grounds that the phone booth be removed. I wish to hell they's flooded the cellar instead," he concluded rather bitterly...
...moths decided to hold a popularity contest to determine who was the greatest hippie among them. Adlai and Averill, two particularly swinging Lepidoptera, were the leading contenders. Booth waited anxiously outside the polling booth for the results to be announced. When at last the decision was posted, Adlai's face fell. It proclaimed...
From a phone booth at the restaurant Miss Caldeira called Capt. John Granger, chief of the Cambridge detective bureau. Granger phoned the Boston police, who went quickly to the restaurant and made the arrest for Cambridge. Farrell was reported to be gentle and cooperative at the arrest. He bummed cigars off the officers and addressed each...