Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fights had been peculiarly uneventful, the crowd in Madison Square Garden for last week's bout between Heavyweight Contenders Ernie Schaaf and Stanley Poreda was one of the smallest of the year. The fight was one of the most exciting. Poreda, a handsome, over-confident Pole, came out en- thusiastically for the first round. He outboxed Schaaf and continued to outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught Poreda squarely on the jaw, landed...
Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (Jew Suss, Success), got publicity by displaying the U. S. slang he had picked up en route to the U. S. from novelist Joseph Hergesheimer. Said he: "The trip was okay. It was swell and it was not lousy...
Died. Moe Mark, 60, pioneer cinema showman; of a cerebral hemorrhage while en route from a Clifton Springs (N. Y.) sanitarium to his White Plains home; in Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario...
...consecutive victories necessary for permanent possession. Then Belgium won it. The Aëro Club Royale de Belgique posted the second-cup which stood only until 1928, fell to the U. S. In return for Belgium's courtesy the Detroit Board of Commerce gave the third trophy, now en route to Washington. Of the group in the Roosevelt Hotel room, Augustus Post had best reason to remember Clifford Harmon. Together in 1909 they had ballooned from St. Louis to Edina, Mo. for a 48-hr. U. S. duration record which still stands. Next year Harmon made another endurance record...
...Hallowe'en dance for graduate students will be given under the auspices of the Graduate Committee of Phillips Brooks House in Agassiz House at 8.30 o'clock tomorrow night...