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Died. Jack McAuliffe, 71, retired (1893) undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion, one of the last of the bareknuckle boxers, who fought James Carney (1887) for 74 rounds before a gamblers' riot broke up the fight, and whose records indicated he never lost a match; of a throat ailment; in Forest Hills...
...Paris after covering every phase of the civil war in Spain arrived New York Timesman William P. Carney. Over the eight solid weekday columns of his first dispatch the Times headlined: "MADRID SITUATION REVEALED; UNCENSORED STORY OF SIEGE. All Semblance of Democratic Forms of Government in Spain Disappears-25,000 Put to Death by Radicals-Priests, Nuns Slain." Excerpts: "Hundreds of luckless Spaniards who held the most liberal political views have been slain in Madrid because they were denounced by former servants who were discharged for incompetence...
...CARNEY W. MIMMS, M. D. Ocala...
...years ago Dr. Siegfried Elias Katz and Psychologist Carney Landis of Manhattan reported to the American Medical Association on an unnamed young man who, believing sleep a waste of time and nothing but a habit, persuaded psychiatrists to give him a no-sleep endurance lest. He was not watched constantly but had to turn a watchman's clock every ten minutes. He dozed off seven times during the ten-day test and his naps totaled about five hours...
...forget it," purred the Woolen lawyer, patting Lawyer Carney's shoulder. Sputtered Mr. Carney: "Don't touch me! Take your hands...