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...gone on from the day when the English drew their long bows and upset the flower of French chivalry at Creey and Agincourt to the cra when American fight fans finally decided that Jack Dempsey was an underdog and deserved cheers instead of boos. The hearts of millions of women will beat a little faster today every time some back named Seymour or Harrison or Frank or Booth or whatever this generation's names are gain a yard or two. And Peabody and Pfister and MacKinney and Lee will be playing the roles of the villainous favorites, but they will...
...race but one of the most respectable prizefighters of all time. From the sorry pass to which a series of second-raters had brought it (Sharkey, Camera, Baer, Braddock), he restored the world's championship to the gate and almost the vigor that it had in Dempsey...
...finger on many another A.F. of L. figure: Jake ("The Bum") Wellner, business agent of the Brooklyn painters; Sam Kaplan, on the executive board of Local No. 306, New York Motion-Picture Machine Operators; John J. Dempsey, international treasurer of the ironworkers. Though a little brown around the edges, their careers have not been blighted. President Green has shouted "We disavow racketeering, gangsterism, and disregard for law most emphatically and without reservation"-but they still have their jobs...
...William Whittington, George S. Wallace, Fred B. Withington, Jr., Stephen B. Smart, Don W. Richards, George B. Post, Hugh McCaffey, John H. Hewitt, Bradley D. Harris, Howard Hodgson, William J. Hornbeck, James W. Hubbell, Jr., Peter Garland, Ed French, George P. Early, Philip Drake, Victor J. Dowling, John P.E. Dempsey, George N. Casey, Clarence J. Clark, Arthur Bauman, Frank D. Bixler, Sherwood Bain and Thomas R. Ayres...
...climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo has two shiners, the cop one. ∙ ∙ Jack Dempsey is making personal appearances with a small-time circus. He referees side-show boxing matches, doubles occasionally as barker. ∙ ∙ After 28 years in Hollywood, 60-year-old Cecil Blount de Mille had his footprints recorded in the cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater...