Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening night the jury seemed to have been packed by an astute pressagent. A verdict of "Not Guilty" was returned by twelve good men & true including Jack Dempsey, Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick of Madison Square Garden and Edward J. Reilly, the Brooklyn lawyer who failed to get Richard Bruno Hauptmann acquitted. In the play's first week, less celebrated jurors convicted beauteous Actress Nolan only once. Author Rand is prepared for either decision. If the defendant is acquitted, the judge berates the jury for a bad decision. If she is convicted, defense asks for a new trial, the judge grants...
Statements like these last week, two weeks before Max Baer and Joe Louis come to blows in New York, were a fair sample of the ballyhoo which has for the last month preceded the most exciting prizefight since Dempsey met Tunney in 1927. Whether newspapers publicize prizefights because the public likes fights or whether the public likes fights because the newspapers publicize them is one of the many riddles of pugilism. No riddle is the fact that while newspaper readers were last week absorbing the details of Negro Louis' romance with a dusky Chicago stenographer named Marva Trotter, whom...
Said onetime Champion Jack Dempsey: "I've got to like Baer. No one knows whether Louis can take...
...intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe in connection with every battle. Beginning with Homer and ending with Ernest Hemingway, Boxing in Art and Literature includes Hazlitt's famed The Fight, Arnold Bennett's report on Beckett v. Carpentier, Irvin S. Cobb on Carpentier v. Dempsey, 45 illustrations by Eakins, Bellows and 35 others, is essentially a handsome gift book that possesses more literary interest than gift books usually have...
Ever since a khaki-colored Detroit Negro made it clear by a long string of knockout victims climaxed by Primo Carnera that he was the most devastating hitter among heavyweight pugilists since Jack Dempsey, a smoking question in the prizefight business has been whether or not Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) can take a punch as well as give one. The difficulty has been caused by the fact that none of Louis' adversaries, since he turned professional a year ago, has proved capable of staying in the ring with him long or actively enough to answer it. Louis' bout...