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...almost straight history. Yellowed newsreel shots of the Dempsey-Willard prize fight are used for the apocryphal ringside broadcast that brings fame and riches to Oakie's cat-whisker station. They are a jolting reminder of the scorching Fourth of July in 1919 when the crop-haired Manassa Mauler, then 24, carved a world's heavyweight championship out of mountainous Jess Willard in just three bitter rounds. They are the best refashioning of history ever contrived by Producer Zanuck...
...Heeney at Rumson Farm Kennels in Fairhaven, N. J. The Irishman from New Zealand snorted: "Well, blime me if that doesn't take the royal cake for gall. . . . The papers are the only place Tunney knocks out anybody. Why, he couldn't stop Dempsey when the old Manassa...
...Manassa, Colo., (birth town of Pugilist Jack Dempsey) members of the school board proposed to name the new high school "The Jack Dempsey School." Came a fierce protest from the American Legion. "A direct affront-yes, an insult-to every World War veteran," said the Chairman of the Denver District Rehabilitation Committee...