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Gene Tunney, champion heavyweight pugilist of the world: "I was called "high hat" again last week. This time it was in an editorial in the New York World, after a report that I had declined to dine with Jack Dempsey on the grounds that appearances might be compromised if we became too friendly. The editorial said: 'Somebody ought to take this Mr. Tunney aside and explain to him just what the heavyweight championship of the world really is. It is not, as he seems to think, an ex-officio position in the Boy Scout movement. . . . It is, in fact...
...entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George, V & Mary will dine privately with the Lord Provost of Glasgow on July...
Where might the burgomaster of Meerane be bound, all resplendent in his uniform of office, at this grey hour of a nipping winter's day? Perhaps off to dine with a dignitary, maybe some great dignitary up at Altenburg or over in Glauchau. No, he seemed too excited even for that. How his whiskers trembled! How his eyes danced! The burghers of Meerane followed him down the street...
...nicking the heroine's name, Cynthia. It appears that the young lady likes her man without matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend powerful with women. Says Husband in plaintive self-defense: "A man who can make love in a falling market may be a hero but he is a damn poor businessman." Into the distress...
...Hazard, we would like it very much to dine with...