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...underdog belt a champion through the ropes is well worth the price of admission. Those who saw Firpo knock Dempsey out of the ring 18 years ago have never forgotten it. Last week, stung with embarrassment at landing on his kinky head, the champion, up at the count of four, came back-a little groggy at first-to blast the young upstart with all he had. In the second round, he gave Baer one of the most terrific poundings ever seen in a prize ring. Baby Baer took it-and in the fifth round brought the crowd to its feet...
Best sequence in Broadcast is almost straight history. Yellowed newsreel shots of the Dempsey-Willard prize fight are used for the apocryphal ringside broadcast that brings fame and riches to Oakie's cat-whisker station. They are a jolting reminder of the scorching Fourth of July in 1919 when the crop-haired Manassa Mauler, then 24, carved a world's heavyweight championship out of mountainous Jess Willard in just three bitter rounds. They are the best refashioning of history ever contrived by Producer Zanuck...
...Jack Dempsey: "The high gift of courage showed out of the slits of his narrow eyes and in his attitude of chill indifference-a gift that was needed, since Miske, his adversary of the afternoon, had nothing at all the matter with him except a little spine disease...
...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...