Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since retiring from boxing seven years ago, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, former world heavyweight champion, has given his name to a Manhattan restaurant and bar, a hotel in Miami, a chocolate bar, a whiskey. Last week he gave it to Jack Dempsey's Sports Magazine. Wrote Editor Dempsey: "Hello, folks! Well, here it is. ... There never will be any dirt or filth in the pages of this magazine. Sports are essentially healthy and clean...
...Remembering well that Cinemactress Henie, had recently sustained a slight concussion when she toppled onto her head during the filming of Happy Landing, Garden officials promptly cabled Lloyd's of London to ask for a $250,000 accident-insurance policy. Of the long procession of sport figures-from Dempsey to Vast, the wonder horse-who had preceded 24-year-old Sonja in Madison Square Garden's five-decade history, not one had ever been considered worthy of such a precaution...
Malcolm D. Campbell, Jr., Milton, Mass.; George W. Chessman, Pooria, Ill.; Alan F. Clifford, Peace Dale, R. I.; John H. Crimmins, Dorchester, Mass.; Martin J. Dempsey, Somerville, Mass.; Donald A. Donahue, Lawrence, Mass.; Joseph P. Driscoll, Worcester, Mass.; John E. Eldridge, North Adams, Mass.; Paul D. Faden, Hyde Park, N. Y.; Russell N. Fairbanks, Somerville, Mass.; John B. Fisher, Los Angeles, Calif.; Richard C. W. Fish- er, East Greenwich, R. I.; Melvin H. Freedman, Brookline, Mass.; William E. Gilkey, Jr., Chickasha, Okla...
...When James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney fought William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to defend his world's heavyweight championship in 1927, he got $990,000, Dempsey $425,000. Dempsey now prospers as the head of a big, bustling restaurant on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. Tunney prospers in a different way. In 1928 he married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank...
University fellowships to Sidney S. Alexander, Edgar H. Clark, Jr., Bernard W. Dempsey, Himo L. Jackson, and Daniel C. Vandermeulen...