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...Unbelievable. Big Jim Jeffries half killed himself working off 65 Ibs. The night before the fight, which was held in Reno on July 4, 1910, he was in such bad shape that a contingent of public-spirited citizens tried to bribe Johnson to take a dive. Johnson politely replied: "Tell Mister Jim that we are going to do the best we know." In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring. He was not counted out-nobody ever...
...Elis dropped out of the mile relay when second man Larry Reno stretched a tendon, and the crimson pulled in second behind the Tigers, Reno had previously carried off the dash from the Crimson's Bob Twitchell...
Divorced. By Rita Hayworth, 34, cinemactress: Prince Aly Khan, 41, playboy-ing eldest son of the Aga Khan, her third husband (she was his second wife); after 3½ years of marriage, one daughter (three-year-old Princess Yasmin, who was placed in her mother's custody) ; in Reno...
Cinemactress Rita Hayworth finally arrived in Reno to divorce Aly Khan. Meanwhile, gambling 100,000-franc chips in Monte Carlo, with Cinemactress Gene Tierney at his side for luck and relaxation, Aly shrugged off comment. Said he: "I don't know anything about it. Nobody tells me anything...
DECEMBER-Snug Harbor. In Mt. Clemens, Mich., when police asked Melvin Reno why he was driving his car on the sidewalk, he muttered: "I'm too drunk to be on the street...