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...black eye, I can't help wondering how the neat shiner donated to Editor Anderson of the Drake University Times-Delphic by Ellis Bergmann and featured in TIME of March 23 compares with the work of a professional "closer of eyes," say the shiner Tunney hung on Dempsey in Philadelphia...
...always seemed to me that a picture taken of a fighter at the end of a fight is more newsworthy than a posed photo showing him sleeked, shaved, unmarked and I never could understand how Jack Dempsey, with his penchant for collecting black eyes in matched pairs always managed to put off the "boys with the cameras" until the shiners had disappeared. . . . L. BERGAN...
...Dempsey's willingness to take punishment while he forced his openings earned him more than the average fighter's quota of black eyes. In 1926 he cheerfully allowed his Tunney shiner to be photographed...
Whitney Museum. U. S. painting and sculpture only, with particular accent on contemporary work, is collected in Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's salmon stucco repository at No. 10 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Best known pieces: Bellows' Dempsey-Tunney Fight and The Blue Clown by Walt Kuhn...
...capitalist taking a flyer. Mr. Tuchman stoutly maintains that Stag is not an imitation of Esquire, but the cover lettering of Stag is distinctly reminiscent and its first contents- divided between mildly scabrous cartoons and mannish text by folk like Hendrik Willem van Loon, Carleton Beals, Ernest Boyd, Jack Dempsey-were unmistakable. Stag is pocket-sized, costs...