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...story: a Jewish boy (John Garfield) of New York's Lower East Side, short on money and long on push, graduates from the amateur fighter class and travels fast. The faster he travels, the dirtier the racket gets. He is disgusted, but in his vanity and his desire for money he rationalizes about the general ugliness of the ringside business, and thus alienates his mother (Anne Revere) and his sweetheart (Lilli Palmer). He agrees to throw his last fight before retiring, but recovers his integrity in time, whales hell out of his opponent and wins back Miss Palmer...
...playing 90 concerts a year at minimums of $1,000 to '$1,500 a concert, had been paid $40,000 to ghost fiddle in Hollywood, for John Garfield in Humoresque. Next month he will set out on his first commercial tour outside the U.S. (he made three U.S.O. trips to the Pacific...
Since the middle of April, 63 striking gravediggers of the United Mine Workers' catch-all District 50 had stopped all burials at Cleveland's nonsectarian Lakeview Cemetery (where President James Garfield lies beneath a towering monument). Holding out for a 10?-an-hour pay raise, pickets prevented delivery of tombstones and a Memorial Day flagpole, chased off two gardeners working on a private plot. Stacked on two-by-fours in the Lakeview chapel, jammed into two crypts and the hallway were 103 coffins, awaiting interment. This week the American Legion took its hat in hand and went around...
...deadlocked in a sort of Hayes-Tilden stalemate. It is the 49th State of the Union which holds the decisive balance. How feverish the crowds in Times Square grow as the slow returns pour in! "Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola. What a revenge...
Married. Abram Garfield, 74, Cleveland architect, son of the 20th U.S. President; and Helen Matthews, 45; he for the second time, she for the first; in Shaker Heights, Ohio...