Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keith has already been taken on a California tour by Henry Armstrong, who says the youngster has "the greatest left I ever saw." Jack Dempsey and Max Baer admire the junior pugilist. Sportswriters who have seen him are enthusiastic. As for Keith himself, he simply proposes to lambaste his way to the championship of the world...
...first day at school in Chicago, Preston rode a bicycle and wore a Greek chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...
...Champion. From 37 years of collecting and expertizing, Fleischer has two conclusions: 1) fighting is the greatest of all sports, 2) Jack Johnson is the greatest fighter of all time. After Johnson, Nat ranks Jeffries, then Fitzsimmons, Sullivan, Jack Sharkey, Dempsey, Louis, Corbett, Tunney, Burns...
...Jack Dempsey's newly divorced Hannah Williams made a singing comeback on Broadway after 13 years' absence and several days on a soup diet. Her latterday debut a thwacking nightclub success, the hungry redhead looked forward to a steak as soon as her nerves lay down again...
...Jack Dempsey won custody of his daughters Joan and Barbara, eight and six. "I don't care what any judge says," declared ex-wife Hannah. "He is not going to get the children. . . . I'm going to appeal to the highest court in the land...