Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, on his way home from a world tour, boxed two playful rounds with his 210-lb. friend Herbert Fleishhacker Jr.. onetime Stanford footballer. Result of the bout: a puffed nose for Footballer Fleishhacker. Said Fisticuffer Tunney: ''Herbie's wind is not so good, and I did not get a black eye as reported. In fact, you might say I haven't been hit yet. It would be a pretty pass if, after boxing 20 years and being champion, I should let myself get hit by an amateur. Perhaps Herb...
President Bernard, most popular of the Gimbel clan, is friend to Gene Tunney and lesser celebrities, spends leisure hours entertaining richly on his Port Chester, N. Y. estate. Cousin Richard, no socialite, expresses himself by pride in his four children and by collecting the works of Edgar Allan Poe whose cottage on Brandywine Street he endowed and refurnished. Between Cousin Bernard and Cousin Richard bad feeling has long existed. After Richard Gimbel had put the Philadelphia store into the black, his salary was cut and he was removed from control-an episode he never allows Cousin Bernard to forget since...
...half interest in the majority stock, plus the duty of managing New York Shipbuilding. Cord bought. Mr. Manning and Cord-chosen directors took over the management but the names of Smith & Bragg appeared nowhere as stockholders. Their interest was hidden behind the name of one director: James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney...
...nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics. It was not Mr. Will Shakespeare's fault that Mr. Tunney, after he had retired from the ring with his million, began delivering lectures about Mr. Will Shakespeare's plays." And though he cannot cast more than a flickering light on the puzzling questions he cheerfully mopes over, there is sometimes a reassuring enthusiasm in his incoherence: "You have...
...first of a series of articles on the publishing business. "More than anything else," he says, "it is the variety of human contacts that, to me, makes publishing exciting and glamorous." He continues by telling in an interesting way some anecdotes concerning Mrs. Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, Gene Tunney, and George Moore...