Word: pompton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit's Joe Louis was also doing some traveling these days, but mostly just around & around, taking off pounds at Pompton Lakes, N.J. for his June 23 fight. He attracted a little helper...
...Pompton Lakes, N.J., where Joe Louis trained, he played gin rummy like he fought-coolly, with a slight trace of a frown. He laughed, though, when he got a first-card knock: "Boy, you sure got to concentrate on this game. . . ." Joe didn't like to lose, even when he was playing...
Died. Albert Payson Terhune, 69, world's most prolific and successful writer of dog stories (Lad: A Dog;Buff: A Collie; etc.); in Pompton Lakes, N.J. He wrote stories about human beings for more than 20 years before he sold his first dog story. A jut-jawed, athletic heavyweight, who had boxed exhibition bouts with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries, he wrote eleven hours a day, six days a week for some 30 years. His kennels, Sunnybank, became the most famed collie kennels...
Class of 1940: Charles H. Coombs Jr., Brockton; Edward M. Davis Jr., Winter Park, Fla.; Edward A. C. Dubois, Somerville; Richard S. Fogelman, Pompton Lakes, N. J.; Louis Hartz, Omaha, Nebr.; Thomas V. Healey, Worcester...