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...lapel microphone to the station manager. To fill in, Mr. Mizer began to describe the crowd scene when the eccentric little Italian stood on tip-toe to open fire. Though Mr. Mizer later declared he had signed off when the excitement began, Miami's famed Pressagent Steve Hannagan, who sweated with the Press to get the story out on the assumption that for publicity purposes any news is good news, said he heard the soothing voice of the announcer report: "There seems to be some excitement here in the crowd. But it's nothing, folks...
Before this year's races, Gar Wood took, precautions to re-establish his prestige by hiring Steve Hannagan, able pressagent for the real estate ventures of Mr. Wood's friend Carl Fisher. By last week people had largely forgotten about last year's incident. More interesting was the fact that in the hull of Miss England III repowered for this year's races, were two 2,200-h. p. Rolls-Royce motors of the lightweight supercharged type which the British Air Ministry developed for its Schneider Cup-winning planes and which Sir Malcolm Campbell...
...Hannagan who "humanized" Gene Tunney when the latter suffered acute unpopularity before his first fight with Dempsey. He counselled the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard in promoting the Sharkey-Stribling fight. He took Rickard to the hospital when he was stricken with appendicitis, substituted for him at the opening of the Miami Beach Kennel Club; was outside the door when Rickard died and escorted his body to New York. Returning to Miami Beach he continued promoting the fight, "building-up" Stribling for southern fans and Sharkey for the northerners for a $405,000 gate...
That the U. S. Scouting Fleet maneuvered off Montauk Point last summer was due as much to the adroitness of Press Agent Hannagan as it was to the Navy wire pulling of Promoter Fisher or Congressman Fred Albert Britten (TIME...
With little time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...