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Mellowing Jack Dempsey, 53, revealed that he gets Christmas and birthday greetings regularly from Gene Tunney, and that Luis Firpo (the Wild Bull of the Pampas) drops him an occasional letter...
...that it ceased to look like an exhibition. Twice, Godoy's knees turned rubbery and he sank to the floor. He was so groggy by the second round that he accidentally landed a haymaker on the referee, Argentina's onetime wonder, Luis ("Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Said Joe Louis' business manager contentedly, after picking up another $15,000 for a night's work: "Should we decide to go to Australia and Europe, Joe will wind up with a half million dollars in exhibition purses which, of course...
...traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting of Luis Angel Firpo knocking Dempsey out of the ring. The critics, suave and gracious in the Argentine tradition, contented themselves with polite praise in sonorous Castilian...
...underdog belt a champion through the ropes is well worth the price of admission. Those who saw Firpo knock Dempsey out of the ring 18 years ago have never forgotten it. Last week, stung with embarrassment at landing on his kinky head, the champion, up at the count of four, came back-a little groggy at first-to blast the young upstart with all he had. In the second round, he gave Baer one of the most terrific poundings ever seen in a prize ring. Baby Baer took it-and in the fifth round brought the crowd to its feet...
...artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, John Sloan's Backyards, Greenwich Village, Charles Burchfield's Old House by the Creek, Max Weber's The Chinese Restaurant. Most of the 30 newly acquired works were new only to the Whitney Museum, added to the housewarming without spoiling the old home mood...