Word: tunney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard him describe the Tunney-Dempsey long count, the broadcast he was proudest...
...Tunney-trained Chief Boatswain's Mate John Geston will conduct the program which must be attended by prospective officers, with the exception of those who are out for intercollegiate teams. Men enrolled in active sports, such as tennis, squash, and single-scull rowing, will be required to be present at only two periods a week...
...operator of the famed Bey's Training Camp for prize fighters near Summit, N.J.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Widow of a onetime Turkish Consul General in New York, she had fed and mothered fighters on her farm for nearly 20 years. Among her "boys" were Tunney, Camera, Berlenbach, Schmeling, Battling Siki. She never bet on a fight...
Bernard is Isaac's oldest son. Big, barrel-chested, clean-living, popular, he was an amateur boxer in his youth, owns Bellows' Stag at Sharkey's, and is called "Uncle Bernie" by the children of his friend Gene Tunney. He achieved his Gimbel hegemony partly through the backing of Julius Rosenwald, then financially interested. Close friend of Horace Saks, Bernard promoted the Saks-Gimbel merger in 1923. Bernard and Horace worked out the deal while riding on a coffin in a baggage car, the smoking car being too crowded...
Dorothy Thompson succeeded Lieut. Commander James Joseph Tunney as head of United Youth for Defense...