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...these harsh terms, 200 Methodist preachers in Los Angeles, Calif., protested the plan to have onetime heavyweight champion (1919-26) Jack Dempsey, box in an exhibition fight of which the receipts would be used to prevent foreclosure upon the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church...
Honor Bound. A southern woman (Estelle Taylor, also known as Mrs. Jack Dempsey) shoots her first husband and allows honorable John Ogletree (George O'Brien) to go to prison for manslaughter. She marries again, persuades her second husband to use honorable Convict Ogletree as a chauffeur. One fine evening, she makes advances to honorable Chauffeur Ogletree; but he repulses her and wrecks the automobile while doing so. She is injured; her husband suspects honorable Wrecker Ogletree, sends him back to prison to labor and be flogged. In the end, honorable Hero Ogletree finds a virtuous nurse and Mrs. Jack Dempsey...
Please allow me to correct an untrue statement in the April 30 issue of TIME which read, "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings." This you quoted as having been said by James Joseph Tunney; he did utter a similar statement while lecturing at Yale, but it happened to have been Jack Sharkey, not Dempsey, that Tunney said was given to extended mouthings and similar to Ajax...
When Jack Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be to face that hunched body with the enormous shoulders, endure the glare of those narrowed black eyes. . . . Last week in a District Court in Manhattan Jack Dempsey climbed into a chair and sat down. He had on a new suit, his fierce black eyes looked sheepish. He stuck his thumbs...
...confessed Mr. Tunney, bewildered and inspired him ten times. After further investigation, he concluded: "The name of William Shakespeare, to me, has been synonymous with all that is lovely and beautiful in life." Going into mythology, Mr. Tunney said: "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings...