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...yard run--Won by Taylor (BC); second, Dempsey (BC); third, T. Read (II). Time...
Javelin--Won by D. Trimble (H); second, J. Holbrook (H); third, Dempsey (BC). Distance: 188 feet, 9 1/2 inches...
...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...
Texas has more big-time chicken men than any other state, headed by ex-Boxer Bobby Manziel, who struck it rich wildcatting for oil on $700 borrowed from his friend, Jack Dempsey. Manziel has a special plane to carry his chickens to & from fights. Not counting bets, the sport costs Manziel about $25,000 a year...
...weeks ago "Miss Hush," an unnamed but "famous American unmarried lady," murmured into a microphone these Orphic clues to her identity. Millions of Americans, feverishly jotting them on cuffs, newspapers and old paper bags, remembered that the winners of Truth or Consequences' contests on Mr. Hush (Jack Dempsey) and Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) had won $13,500 and $17,590 respectively. Soon the Hush money had fact-finding listeners in block-long queues at the Los Angeles Public Library; in Manhattan's Times Square, tipsters hawked greensheets (the not-so-hot tip: Evangeline Booth) at $1. But nobody...