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...reared in Chicago. He made the Chicago Tribune Golden Gloves learn in 1920,. Like many Golden Gloves boxers, he promptly turned professional. Unlike most, he won his fights. Last week's was his 23rd victory in a row. All Hebrew lightweights who know how to execute a simple feint are automatically compared with Benny Leonard. Slick little Ross may turn out to justify the analogy better than his predecessors-Sid Terris, Ruby Goldstein, Al Singer-if, as he promised to do last week, he gives Canzoneri, who had held the title for three years, a return match next autumn...
...President Davison, who just left Herbert Hoover's service as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, knows he must raise money for the American Museum. It is finishing three new wings, can no longer count on much municipal support. This week Mr. Davison makes his first feint at pocketbooks, by speaking before the New York Advertising Club. Soon he & Mrs. Davison are going to Kenya Colony. Africa, "to see the lions, not shoot them." Their hosts, the camera-wise Martin Johnsons, have two planes which air-wise Mr. & Mrs. Davison may fly for sightseeing...
...coach in the Midwest; if not, the ablest is probably Dr. Walter E. ("Doc") Meanwell of Wisconsin, a stocky, irascible theorist who never played basketball. He now directs practice from a tall perambulator which assistant managers push around the floor. His teams, more than usually adept at blocking and feint dribbling, play smart defensive basketball with one guard always well behind the middle of the floor to break up quick, unexpected advances...
...giddy girls and boys are celebrating their last evening in Hotel Continental. It's tragic to see old couples come back to spend the last night in the rooms where they honeymooned, but Miss Shannon dispels such somber thoughts. Enticing a man of mystery into the room by a feint of suicide, Peggy falls dearly in love with the young embezzler, who has just returned from five years in the big house. Even though her duty to the gang is to see where he has hidden the loot which he comes to take away the night before the hotel closes...
...literary career, its rewards & punishments. On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense. He does not hesitate to call a spade a dung-scoop or Pegasus a stallion. Among those writers who can damn the world's illusion with feint praise, Cabell holds, deserves to hold, high place...