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HARVARD HOLY CROSS Dubiel, le re, Curley Glendinning, lt rt, Moncewicz Gaffney, lg rg, Flanagan or Lingua Grebley, c c, Mautner Kessler, rg lg, Luciano Maser, rt lf, Gavin Kelly, re le, Daughters Hedblom, qb qb, Kidd Adzigian, lhb rhb, Morris Ford, rhb lhb, Dougherty Blackwood, fb fb, Yablonsky...
...Weeks of Hornblower & Weeks was Warren Harding's late Secretary of War, John Wingate Weeks. His only son, Sinclair ("Sinkie") Weeks, is president of United-Carr and longtime Republican Mayor of smug Newton, Mass. When not occupied with fasteners, "Sinkie" Weeks bedevils Democratic Governor James M. Curley, whose limousine has twice run down escorting troopers, one of them in "Sinkie's" bailiwick. When Curley denied that he had been personally involved in the Newton crash, "Sinkie" held an investigation, brought forth witnesses who said that they had seen His Excellency in the car. On the side, "Sinkie" Weeks...
...what will happen when a Harding returns, or when Curley becomes President? Then a grafter will be Commissioner, or a Socialist, and the extra power given to the Commission will be used against honest business men, against any one who dares fight the dirty politician in charge...
After the War, when the famed "Masked Marvel" (Mort Henderson) was defeated by Strangler Lewis, wrestling became comparatively unprofitable. Promoter Curley restored the sport to favor in 1929 by the simple device of having his performers shriek, groan, wave their arms, grimace and plunge out of the ring, instead of squirming calmly on the floor as is the practice of wrestlers who are solely occupied with winning...
Amiable, cultured, incurably addicted to assisting at his own extravaganzas, Promoter Curley's two salient characteristics are good taste, which, because it is utterly anomalous in his profession, he rigorously confines to his private life; and the useful knack of knowing celebrities and being on hand at every sort of crisis. He is the only U. S. sporting personage whose reputation for being well-dressed is based on the excellence rather than the quantity of his clothes. His house at Great Neck. L. I., where his butler for many years was a retired fisticuffer named Bobby Dobbs...