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Dynastic succession is unknown to pugilists. When a ring king leaves his throne, ordinarily he has been knocked off it by a bruiser better than...
However, if you do go into the business a few hints might be valuable. Don't try to put anything over on any other newspaperman, and don't volunteer any extra work, don't do any espionage, and don't get excited. If some bruiser of a night city editor sends you at one o'clock in the morning to ask John D. Rockefeller what he thinks of the oil situation in Mosul just go home and about two hours later telephone the bruiser that Mr. Rockefeller is inaccessible at that hour...
This evening, however, he craves a new experience. So he tries entering the Merry Grotto in workingman's clothes. He is thrown down the stairs by Ravanni, Lisenco and Mike Scolleri, a bruiser who runs the cloak room of the establishment. He comes back again, is again thrown out. This happens six times. As he mounts the stairs for a seventh time, he discovers that the defense has been worn out by his persistence. By this time he is an enthusiastically worshipped hero. Especially to Selma, who sees in him an ally to her own determinations...
...Wilson, the English bruiser, has sailed for home, and if he writes a book about America he will have no trouble in telling what "struck him most forcibly" in this country...
...JOHNNY BRUISER...