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...Legion Stadium to see some boxing matches stepped jaunty, garrulous Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist for the New York Mirror. Up from his ringside seat jumped Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, whose big-eyed wife, Ruby Keeler, had started to whimper at the sight of Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell's new scenario, Broadway...
...inspecting prospective landing places, charting the upper air, studying the effects of the Magnetic Pole and Northern Lights on his plane's radio and direction-finder. In the latter chore-radio testing-he had the valuable help of his wife who has a "better sending fist" than Lindbergh himself. She holds a radio operator's license, can transmit 20 words per minute...
...Music Department of Harvard, will give a pianoforte recital on Wednesday evening, August 2, at 8 o'clock in the Music Building. Josephine B. Bates, violinist, will assist. The program will consist of Sonata in F Major by Handel, Second Sonata, opus 18 by Faure, and Sonata in E Fist, opus 12, number 3 by Beethoven...
...Life of Jimmy Dolan (Warner) concerns principally a rowdy, champagne-guzzling prize-fighter (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who kills a reporter with a blow of his fist on the night that he wins the light heavyweight championship of the world. His manager, running away in the fighter's car, gets burned to death in an accident; his charred corpse is mistaken for the fighter's. This gives the fighter a chance to change his name from Jimmy Dolan to Jack Daugherty. He wanders out West as a hobo until he comes to a happy little farm where a girl...
...Representative Charles Isaiah Faddis came home to his Washington apartment he opened the door on a young burglar. The burglar pointed a pistol at Representative Faddis, told him in a rich Southern accent to put up his hands. Faddis took one step forward, swung his fist against the burglar's jaw, knocking him down, jarring him loose from his pistol. Mr. Faddis then called police who took the young man, one Clarence Roberts, 17, to the hospital...