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...said that Firpo has never smoked and has never taken a drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dempsey-Firpo Notes | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...these questions (put by an interpreter) Firpo shrugged his massive shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dempsey-Firpo Notes | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...newspapermen who gave Firpo his nom de guerre, "Wild Bull of the Pampas." And later it was the newspapermen who had Luis eat raw meat. Thus with a single flourish of the pen is a bovine rendered carnivorous. One journalist (Frank F. O'Neill of The Sun and The Globe] had wit enough to remark: " The public is expected to see a horned man roaming about with blood from fresh-killed steaks dripping from his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dempsey-Firpo Notes | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...Song of Firpo's friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dempsey-Firpo Notes | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

Alfred Mayer, correspondent for La Nacion (Buenos Aires), told a Manhattan journalist,* who appeared to be credulous, that in a certain Argentine field meet Firpo ran the mile in 4:23. (This is only a shade more than ten seconds beyond the best time ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dempsey-Firpo Notes | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

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