Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bored with setting new records for the mile, Venzke last week contemplated winning the 1,000 yard championship instead. Later, he decided to run the mile after all, but not to try for a new record, and to enter no more mile races this season. For the last 25 years...
Age 36, weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, rated as the tenth best heavyweight in the U. S. The fight, billed as a four round exhibition bout, had drawn a...
When Dempsey last summer announced that he would undertake a series of exhibition bouts to recondition himself for an attempt to regain his title, no one knew exactly what he meant. Skeptics surmised that he had no intention of ever fighting heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, but mentioned the possibility to...
Accompanied by Jerry ("Jerry the Greek") Luvadis, his rubber and body servant, and Leonard Sacks, his smooth spoken Hollywood secretary and business manager, Dempsey left to continue his tour in Louisville, Ky. (where Governor Ruby Laffoon was to give him the rank of Colonel on the Governor's staff...
In Manhattan, at a symposium in connection with an exhibition of "international style" architecture (TIME, Feb. 22) Lewis Mumford, famed author-critic, spoke up last week and said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if...