Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voice. The gloomy souls who prophesied such a shoddy ending to Bing's career overlooked the most important Crosby quality. Like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Bill Tilden, who thrilled the fans of the '203, Bing knows how to please the crowd, all ages, all sexes. Journalist Joseph Chamberlain Furnas (-And Sudden Death) stated the case with scientific coolness when he wrote: "The prevalent feminine verdict is still that [Crosby]is definitely cute, while the masculine part of the audience seems not to mind him at all-which distributes the positive and negative reactions in exactly the right...
...Rell Truitt on April 1) is a specialist on ship design, will be assigned accordingly. Bushy-browed, big-nosed Thomas Mullen Woodward, Philadelphia lawyer, does the Commission's legal jobs, is charged with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission's business affairs, walks around amid a litter of real-estate deeds, letters from Chambers of Commerce in cities where new yards are building, from Baltimore to Houston to Portland...
...Miami Beach that day, and the Sunday night was chilly. Men on the hunt, women coyly at bay, people who were merely married or alone packed the twin, curving bars at the 5 O'Clock Club (where the drinks are free at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.). Jack Dempsey brooded in a corner of his dim and crowded saloon. Fat, male Mother Kelly dished up steaks, drinks and hermaphroditic comedy at Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos...
Married. Tommy Gibbons, 51, oldtime heavyweight who in 1923 fought 15 famous rounds with Jack Dempsey at Shelby, Mont., now sheriff of Ramsey County (St. Paul), Minn.; and Mrs. Josephine Black, realtor's widow; both for the second time; in Chippewa Falls...
...cardful of amateur fights in Philadelphia was as rough a roster as ever climbed into a ring. In honor of the occasion they squared off for a few photographic passes : double-chinned Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...