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Both the low and high board fancy dives should fall to Yale's Jim Cook, twice winner of the Easterns and second in the Nationals last year. Cook's strongest opponents will be Harvard's Shaw McCutcheon, Ohio State's Frank Dempsey, and Occidental's Summy Lee, a native of China who took a close third to Cook last season

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: HARVARD PLAYS HOST TO TOPFLIGHT COLLEGE MERMEN IN NATIONAL MEET TODAY, TOMORROW | 3/27/1942 | See Source »

...Jack Dempsey said good-by to two male guests at a party in the Dempsey apartment in Manhattan. The guests preferred to stay. Later, ambulance attendants treated one for a possible jaw fracture and black eye, the other for a scalp wound and a split lip. "I just slapped 'em around a bit," the ex-champ protested. No charges were brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bejeweled Hyena | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Uniforms | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...National League pennant but beat the mighty Yankees in the World Series of 1926. Three months later, Owner Sam Breadon sold his miracle-manager to the New York Giants. Reason: a salary dispute that prompted Breadon to say he would rather go into the ring with Jack Dempsey than argue with Rogers Hornsby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortal No. 27 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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