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Died. Mrs. Hranoush Aglaganian Sidky Bey ("Madame Bey"), sixtyish, beetle-browed, square-rigged operator of the famed Bey's Training Camp for prize fighters near Summit, N.J.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Widow of a onetime Turkish Consul General in New York, she had fed and mothered fighters on her farm for nearly 20 years. Among her "boys" were Tunney, Camera, Berlenbach, Schmeling, Battling Siki. She never bet on a fight...
Fight Camp was obviously inspired by the career of Madame Hranoush Bey, a onetime concert singer of French-Armenian extraction whose late husband was secretary in the Turkish Embassy, before he and Madame went into the fighttraining business at Summit, N.J., some 20 years...
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