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Jack Kelly seized the job with both hands. This week he opened Physical Training headquarters in Philadelphia, announced that he would appoint a woman to toughen U.S. women, would enlist prominent athletes (e.g., Jack Dempsey, Tom Harmon) "to help teach the men and women of America to be strong." He plans to start a toughening-for-defense school in every village, town and city; to organize hiking clubs, calisthenics clubs, softball and soccer clubs, swimming clubs, skating clubs; to open Government clinics to diagnose citizens' physical weaknesses...
...Jack Dempsey announced that he and his exactress wife, Hannah Williams, had become reconciled...
...from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting of Luis Angel Firpo knocking Dempsey out of the ring. The critics, suave and gracious in the Argentine tradition, contented themselves with polite praise in sonorous Castilian...
...twelfth round, Conn's sustained attack had the crowd on its feet, yelling. It was terrific. The fleet-fisted kid had confounded, dumfounded and dazed the greatest champion since Dempsey. On most ringside cards he was leading on points. Louis was obviously worried...
Mormon Jack Dempsey and his separated Baptist wife, Hannah Williams, got together to watch their older daughter, Joan, 6, make her first Communion as a Catholic...