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Authoress Corbett has written an absorbing and unique biography by means of a series of short dramatic scenes and purported dialogues?between Whitman and others and betwee Allen Poe to "two Dartmouth Seniors." The book presents a graphic account of a man who wished to live his life into his poetry...
...white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, as having said, kneeling beside the casket: "The zephyr of all ring-time! The only one that ever hit him was Death...
...Boxing is a lost art, in fact, the whole world seems to me to be on the wane," James J. Corbett said late last night in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter just before going out for his comedy act "Gentleman Jim." "In spite of his pessimistic statement he seemed anything but depressed as he straightened his bright green tie and doned his white flannels. When his interviewer showed his ignorance of boxing in the '80's and '90's, Mr. Corbett reviewed his rise in the fistic world...
...Cicero is called 'The Count" by his colleagues, for his tales of former glory. He frequently shaved "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, John L. Sullivan, Governor Whitman, William A. Brady. Charles M. Schwab, Andrew Carnegie, George Young* and scores more preferred him to all barbers. Publisher Govin of the Journal of Commerce took him abroad as private barber and interpreter, later helping him start a mineral-water...
...Corbett and the Corbett Revue appeared at the University Theatre during the vacation week, and their act was so enthusiastically received that a return engagement has been arranged for--Advt...