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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, in a Stamford, Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...
Melody Ranch (Republic) is no ordinary Gene Autry western. At busy little Republic studios, the cinema's most constant source of sagebrush sagas, the conventional eclogue on the majesty of ranch life has been switched to an offensive against the pitfalls of the city by showing the studio's crack cowboy taking a lacing from the rough, tough Wildhack Boys (Barton MacLane, Joseph Sawyer, Horace MacMahon) after a few months in a Hollywood broadcasting studio have softened up the Autry biceps. It is not a pretty sight...
...addition to these more-experienced players, Coach Barnaby has a squad of about thirty including a dozen untried members with noteworthy possibilities. Among the Seniors are are Gene Nickerson, the squad's only southpaw, who specializies in drop shots and lobs and who made a rapid advance from the "C" to the "A" team last year, and John Glidden, who held the number nine spot against Yale two years ago but was beaten out last season...
...department is one in which Coach Reggie Root has no worry. Dent, Jim McTernan, and Tim Hoopes are all outstanding flank men, and should cause the Crimson secondary no end of worry this afternoon. Gene Constant in has been a bulwark of the line from his right tackle post and has made more than his share of tackles in the season now nearly over. Center Bill Over lock has drawn considerable attention by his stellar backing up of the Eli line...
...Gene Tunney: ". . . I'd rather go down to hell with Wendell Willkie than to the White House with Roosevelt...