Word: prizefights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, white-haired (he is 46, has been white-haired since he was 16), Cartoonist Hershfield looks and acts in every way the opposite of "Abie." Exceedingly popular, he claims to know more persons in Manhattan than anyone else not in public life. He has been photographed with eight prizefight champions, is an accomplished diner out, is in perpetual demand as a toastmaster. Also he is a practical joker. He it was who, looking from his apartment window, once saw a woman in an apartment across the street disporting herself with a male caller. Spying the woman's name...
...himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal by moonlight. The commentary is gay, sometimes painfully so. When elephants lollop in a river, Fairbanks says: "They wear nothing but their trunks." Commenting on a Japanese prizefight, he imitates a radio announcer, ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There is no pun about Chinese junk. Pictorially, Around the World in 80 Minutes is nothing much. But the cinema has always before treated information as a bore; travelogs have almost without exception been sad and spiritless products proving...
...sometimes gay, affection. Finally there arrives Beery's comeback as a fighter. He shuffles into the ring in a torn bathrobe, defeats what is supposed to be a first-class boxer in a struggle which will seem a little absurd to anyone who has ever seen a prizefight. After the fight, he has heart-failure; little Cooper's underlip comes out again...
...school, pushing a wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon-controlled Standard Steel Car Co., now a part of Pullman. He plays golf only as a concession to friends, does not like the theatre, hates formal entertaining. But he never misses a good prizefight. At stag parties his songs start early, are famed & frequent. Just as many a tycoon seeks relaxation in reading, playing a violin, constructing ship models or painting. Mr. Joyce has his escape mechanism. When he wants to be alone he buys a couple of apples, rides for an hour...
...outweighed his disappointment at losing. He shook hands vigorously, consoled his manager, William Duffy, who was recently cataloged as one of Manhattan's six foremost public enemies, with a pat on the shoulder. Promoter of the Sharkey-Carnera bout was James J. ("Jimmy") Johnston. Because this and his previous prizefight enterprises last summer had established him as a serious rival, Madison Square Garden Corp. last week offered to make Promoter Johnston general manager. Promoter Johnston accepted the offer, planned to take up his new post, at a salary of $25,000 a year, immediately. Observers suspected that he might supply...