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...Manhattan Primo Camera, prodigious Italian fisticuffer who is scheduled to fight Jack Sharkey for the world's heavyweight championship June 29. filed a petition in bankruptcy, listing assets of $1,182 and liabilities of $59,829, including $14,390 to a London waitress named Amelia Tersini who sued him for breach of promise. ______∙______ Scheduled to address Stanford and Harvard alumni in San Francisco, Stanford Business School's Dean Jacob Hugh Jackson did not appear. Four members of his faculty arrived with apologetic explanations. Dean Jackson had been invited that evening to "bring 25 or 30 students with...
...forestall it by ordering the arrest of all army officers whose loyalty to the Republic is in doubt. Chief prisoner was General Manuel Goded. After the fall of the monarchy two years ago General Goded was in high Republican favor for having started a plot to oust Dictator Primo de Rivera in 1929, for having told King Alfonso that his troops would no longer fight for him. Later General Goded changed his mind, was placed on the retired list. Just to be sure, he was exiled last week to the Canary Islands...
...pilgrims from northern Italy filed devoutly and stood against the wall. When Pope Pius came in by another door, all knelt. As the Pope stood he spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...
...London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded ?4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul...
...Pennsylvania's Senator Davis and Lady Louis Mountbatten, after appendicitis operations, in Pittsburgh and Paris; General Pershing, of a throat infection, in Tucson, Ariz.; Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Helen ("Boop-oop-a-doop") Kane Hoffman, of influenza in Saint Leonards, England, and Hamilton, Bermuda; Prizefighter Primo Camera and onetime English Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, of injuries received in automobile accidents, in Bologna, Italy, and Kent, England...