Word: mccarney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stubby, moon-faced Stephen Jerome Hannagan made his start by shouting the praises of Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming auto racers. His big chance came, 20 years ago, when Promoter Carl Graham Fisher put him in charge of Miami Beach's publicity. Hannagan set up a news bureau, sent northward a steady flow of good copy - about 25% society notes on what the home folks were doing down South, the other 75% pictures of pretty girls in bathing suits. Miami Beach prospered, and Steve Hannagan got a lot of the credit...
...Manhattan's Supreme Court appeared one Helen Butler Jacobs to sue the estate of Joe ("Yussel the Muscle") Jacobs, late fight manager, for $1,000 and a third of his share of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight, claiming she was his wife. Said William J. McCarney, Jacobs' former business partner: "He had half a dozen girls. . . . When he introduced another woman to me as his 'little wife' I asked him if he was married. 'Do you think I'm crazy?' he answered...