Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack Dempsey finally got a uniform. When the Army turned him down because of his age (46) he got offers from the Navy, refused because: "I could get in the Navy, but I don't like water or boats." He went to New York's Governor Herbert Lehman and offered himself to the State Guard. Last week he was sworn in by the Guard as a first lieutenant, assigned as aide-de-camp to the Commanding General...
...Jack Dempsey, 46, tried to enlist in the Army in Manhattan, passed his physical exam, but failed to win a waiver of the age limit...
...Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook, The Book of Mormon, a set of Indian arrowheads, a turkey's wishbone (the V-symbol), an autographed picture of Jack Dempsey and a carton of skin lotion, a couple of soap dishes, a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt done on a typewriter...
...Biggest single purse ever received by a fisticuffer: $990,445 that went to Gene Tunney for outpointing Jack Dempsey in Chicago...
...Largest crowd at a U.S. prizefight was not the 120,757 that saw the first Dempsey-Tunney world-championship fight in Philadelphia (1926), but the crowd that watched Tony Zale knock out Billy Pryor last summer in Milwaukee. It was a free show put on by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The attendance...