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...Under the arc lights the best hound, a snowy greyhound named White Rose of Boveway, was a study in rippling marble. Best working dog was the ugly, muscular boxer, Dorian von Marienhof, whose owner year ago incorporated him at $4,000, sold $1 shares to such folk as Jack Dempsey, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936). The best toy, Tang Hao of Cavershawm Catawba, was, as usual, a Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound...
Because the work of all these men is very well known, the Whitney Museum went to great pains to see that the pictures and drawings honoring them should be comparatively new to the Manhattan art world. Pride of the museum is George Bellows' great canvas of the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Because it had been shown so many times, it was not included in the present exhibition. Borrowed from the Cleveland Museum to take its place was the equally important Stag at Sharkey's. So with the other artists: whenever possible, paintings and drawings were borrowed from collections which...
Fight Against Fear (See front cover) Jack Dempsey had screwed up his courage for a fight last week. Bright & early one morning he turned up at the State Supreme Court building in downtown Manhattan, prepared to testify that once he had been afraid to fight, had paid to be let off. Old Champion Dempsey's reputation for ferocious pugnacity remained unblemished. But as proprietor of big, flashy Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, across the street from Madison Square Garden, he had, according to the courtroom story of a State prosecutor, encountered an enemy more formidable than any Firpo...
...behind them was something that could not be reached with fists, something huge and vague and sinister. He dodged that fight, paid his forfeit. Jack Dempsey was ready to fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands upon thousands of reputable New York businessmen who had been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police...
...opening speech delivered by Chief Assistant Herlands, of having operated a Manhattan restaurant racket along strictly conventional lines. Their Association charged a $250 initiation fee, $5 per month dues. Its terrorized members-in-cluding such famed restaurants as The Hollywood, Lindy's, Brass Rail, St. Regis and Jack Dempsey's-were additionally shaken down for whatever they were worth. One chain paid $17,000. Jack Dempsey got off with $285, possibly because he gave the Association prestige by posing before newscameras with two of its operators. Profits from the racket were $2,000,000 per year...