Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, 54, famed body builder to Broadway and Wall Street; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A onetime flyweight fighter, he did fairly well as a gym instructor till 1925, then shot to fame by reconditioning Babe Ruth, who came out of a slump of 25 home runs to knock out 47 next season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position...
...Frank got up at 3 a.m. to cover the morning paper route, doubled on an evening paper route after school, earned $2.25 a week. He worked his way through Michigan's little Alma College by waiting tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor. After the Spanish-American War he broke into journalism as a $10-a-week reporter, married his college sweetheart, lived on a family budget that gave him 50? a week for spending money, usually managed to save a dime out of his allowance toward a paper...
...spittoon-bombarding type of promoter. Ned Irish never owned a camel's-hair coat. After graduating from Penn, he wrote college sports first for Philadelphia newspapers, then on the World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn't even get to the doors to pound. Filled with a cub's do-or-die spirit, he climbed through a window and tore his pants. That clinched it. Why shouldn...
...bought barrels of buttons, set up the large gym of a church with tables and issued a call for volunteers to sort the buttons into smaller boxes according to size and color...
Rolling up a record-breaking total of 84 points, the Freshman basketball team swamped Nichols Junior College 34 to 59 in the losers' bandbox gym Saturday night...