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...number of patients, he is said to have called up the nun in charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness of my old friend Tex. Tell me, Mrs. Rickard, how is he?" "He's dying, Governor," the tearful spouse replied, and Romanoff...
Several of the pioneer car-analysis stations were set up by Mobil and Shell when they discovered that their customers were disenchanted with existing garage methods. And car manufacturers only wish their own dealers could afford the same elaborate diagnostic equipment the analyst can offer. Says E. B. Rickard, manager of Ford's service and parts division: "It's just like modern medicine. The modern car is an enormously complicated piece of machinery. In a person, if you have to have your tonsils taken out, you want to be absolutely sure they have to come out. That...
Jeffries was far from eager; he had quit training, was long past his peak and weighed 285 Ibs. But he was hounded endlessly, both by Promoter Tex Rickard and the public. He went to Europe to relax and was startled one day when Britain's King Edward VII stepped out of a shop in Carlsbad and accosted him. The King, who had been picking out silver foxes for a lady friend, wanted to know when he would beat Johnson. Jeffries came home, and on Oct. 29, 1909 signed to fight Li'l Arthur 45 rounds...
...held the boxing world in the itching palm of his hand; of a heart attack; in Miami. Born on Manhattan's lower West Side, shrewd, deadpan Mike Jacobs opened his first ticket agency in a Broadway hotel, moved into boxing by raising $200,000 to help Promoter Tex Rickard stage the Dempsey-Carpentier championship fight in Jersey City in 1921 (the first million-dollar gate). In the '30s he parlayed his exclusive contract with Joe Louis into a 50% chunk of Madison Square Garden's boxing profits, the say-so at every other major arena around...
...compelling, tightly-kit Suite for two pianos by Edward Rickard, 1G, ended the program. While thoroughly at home in the musical language of America today, as examplified by Barber and Copland, Mr. Rickard avoids being merely imitative. His musical ideas are original and he expresses them in a carefully thought-out, effective manner. The Suite contains a wealth of ingenious rhythmic and structural patterns, yet their variety never endangers the unity of the work as a whole. The deeply-felt final adagio--rising to a loftier, more intense level of expression than any of the other movements--seemed...