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Bundled off to the Illinois insane asylum at Kankakee was "Leaping Lena" Levy...
boisterous sister and longtime manager of clownish Fisticuffer Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"). To a Chicago court Fisticuffer Levinsky and two brothers complained that Sister Lena had not been ''quite right" since she was beaten in a North Side hotel three months ago. She talked and leaped more than usual, stuck out her tongue, smoked cigarets in violation of "No Smoking" signs...
Born. To Dr. James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman Jr.. interne at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman and his divorced wife, Mrs. Fowler McCormick; and Lena Wilson Stillman, Quebec farmer's daughter: a son, their second child...
...Fisticuffer Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"),* onetime Chicago fish-peddler, 1934 was a miserable year. In January his sister & manager, "Leaping Lena" Levinsky, divorced her husband in order to have more time to run her brother's affairs. In March he was thrashed by German Walter Neusel. In May, he went to a hospital, for a minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four...
Elliott White Springs' Grandfather White was a Confederate general who won Southern hearts in Reconstruction days by accepting Confederate greenbacks in payment of a big debt. Elliott White Springs' stepmother is handsome, energetic Lena Jones Springs, whose name was formally proposed and seconded for the vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in 1924. Elliott White Springs' father was Col. Leroy Springs who, upon his death three years ago, left his son control of seven of South Carolina's biggest and best textile mills at Fort Mill, Lancaster and Chester. But Elliott White Springs...