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...most evenly matched bouts of the evening John Parker '41 edged out Bob Dwan '42 in the 145 pound group. Ted Kahn '40 of the 155 pounders lost a close one to Hank Kelley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Crows Sees Freshmen Win Laurels in Boxing Final | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...semi-finals Joe Passonneau defeated Dave Simboli '40 in the 135 pound class to move up to the finals. Horace Bresler won by default over Jack bragg who injured his finger. Bob Dwan nosed out Nelson Hardenberg '40 in the 145 pound group to move up to the finals. Frank Neal '41 lost to Johnnie Parker to put him out of the 145 pound division. Henry Kelly '40 won his decision over Irving Schitt 1G, sending him up to the final bout of the 155 pound class. Chet McLaughlin '41 lost to Ted Kahn, who advanced to the finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Crows Sees Freshmen Win Laurels in Boxing Final | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...pound class Bob Dwan '42 edged Bill Munson '42 on a decision as did Frank Neal '41 over Joe Howard '42. Johnson Parker '41 took another close one from Vorn Johnson '42. Chet McLaughlin '41 in the 155 pound division was awarded the decision from Henry Freniere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Boxers Battle Through First Round of Tournament | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...their friends to save their money. When she made up her mind to start a hotel in Paris, her closest friend, a Manhattan astrologer named Nella Webb, persuaded her to wait, predicted that she would enjoy "seven fat years" beginning Jan. 17, 1927. On Jan. 17, Director Allan Dwan telephoned Marie Dressier, offered her a role in a picture he was about to make in Florida. Reluctantly-because she suspected that the producers who remembered her would think she was superannuated -Marie Dressier took the job. When her friend

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tugboat Annie | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

Seven years ago, Marie Dressier (born Lelia Koerber) offered to play in vaudeville for $2,000 a week, could find no takers. She was ready to give up acting to try running a hotel in Paris when Director Allan Dwan offered her a job in Hollywood. The part that made her a cinema star, as she had been a stage star 25 years before,* came later-a bit in Anna Christie. Said Cinemactress Dressier: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Year's Best | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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