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...case Publisher Curtis should want it. Since the death of his second wife, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Pillsbury Curtis, in Philadelphia a year ago, while he was gravely ill in the hospital with her, Publisher Curtis had rarely ventured away from home. Most U. S. schoolboys can recite the newsboy-to-tycoon story of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, as told by his son-in-law the late Edward William Bok,* but it is doubtful if he is a hero to many of those boys. Not that he was unworthy. On the contrary, every turn of his career provides a text...
...roundly whipped the best available challenger - that Chocolate had failed to do himself justice. Now 22, Chocolate arrived in the U. S. four years ago. won 167 fights before he lost his first one, to Lightweight Jack Berg two years ago. Before that he had been a newsboy in Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama Joe Gans. Equipped with 365 suits, $65,000 in Havana real estate and a magnificent fighting brain so single-tracked that it so far contains only a few dozen English words, Kid Chocolate makes himself a nuisance to his indulgent Cuban manager...
Fourth "Corbett" to win a boxing championship,* Raffaele Giordano chose his pseudonym 13 years ago when, a newsboy who learned boxing in street fights, he was matched against a newsboy named Jeffries. James J. Corbett's brother ran a pool room; Raffaele Giordano bought his father a pool room out of his ring earnings, bought himself a service station when, after beating Young Jack Thompson in an overweight match, it began to seem likely that no welterweight champion would dare share a ring with...
Died. Abraham E. Lefcourt, 55, Manhattan realtor; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance...
...news is made. People do many things under many different circumstances. There seldom passes a day in which someone doesn't do something out of the ordinary. It is not the kings and statesmen that make the best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic cop on his boat in Harlem are excellent sources for news stories...