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...above helping his Home along with a bit of publicity, Father Flanagan broadcasts his boys' band, gets celebrities to visit the institution, among them: Tom Mix,* Admiral Byrd, Paul Whiteman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Will Rogers. With a fanfare from the local Press, Father Flanagan got up from his sick bed fortnight ago and set out for Seattle to plead with Governor Roland Hartley for Herbert Niccolls' custody. Said Father Flanagan: "I am willing to back my reputation of years of work that I can aid this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve...
...Mahonri Young the sculptor said I was built practically the equivalent of Jack Dempsey. That is, if Dempsey was a woman, you understand. I was born in the same part of Colorado. . . . I have lots of friends out in Thermopolyae, Wyo., but I have to tell them I'm a trained nurse because they never heard of art. They'd think I was working in a peep show...
Divorced. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; from Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, for mental cruelty; in Reno...
...those who wrote Washington Merry-Go-Round. Not that I think your readers give a damn whether I had a part in it or not, but the fact is that I had precisely as much to do with the book as Calvin Coolidge or Jack Dempsey had. There is, as you say, a "coterie of newsmen" who meet now and then and settle the affairs of the world, but it is no more a "Georgetown Group" than a Flatbottom Group. It includes some hard-boiled conservatives. It does not include some of those you name...
About to lose his land near Bradenton, Fla. in default of back taxes, George O. Lea, State Legislator, deeded it to Mahatma Gandhi, President Hoover, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, Will Rogers, Clara...