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That a gorilla can lick a heavyweight prizefighter-even three prizefighters-was a pet theory of the late great Journalist Arthur Brisbane. Last week, onetime (1926-28) Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney focused attention on his sports editorship of the new Connecticut Nutmeg (TIME, May 30) by reviving the argument...
...gorilla is a sluggish thinker," Nutmegaphoned Editor Tunney. "He only knows one attack. He goes after something and grabs it with his hands and then hugs it to his breast, crushing the life out of it when possible...
Editors and owners of the Nutmeg are ten: American Newspaper Guild President Heywood Broun, music critic and composer Deems Taylor, publicist Stanley Hoflund High, cinema editor Colvin Brown, distiller James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, novelists John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy) and Ursula Parrott (Ex-Wife), journalist Quentin Reynolds, advertising executive Jack Pegler (brother of Westbrook), literary agent George T. Bye. Saluting its neighbors, the Nutmeg announced: "We have no policy. . . . The Nutmeg is our cracker barrel. There will always be a seat for you on a nail keg. We promise to supply at least two problems where...
...cocktails. John Erskine's regular department will be Men's Furnishings ("The belt question grows acute. . . ."), but for the first issue Mr. Erskine also contributes an editorial on relief and a timely piece on "A Central School for Poundridge." Uncommonly elegant sportswriting comes from sports editor Gene Tunney, author of the section on Boxing in America in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Mr. Tunney on the forthcoming Louis-Schmeling fight: "Schmeling really has no physical fortification which should prove impervious against the champion's attack, though he can absorb lots of punishment...
Among those who watched Arturo Toscanini conduct the last of his eleven NBC broadcasts, was James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, director of American Commercial Alcohol Corp., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York, lecturer on Shakespeare, former heavyweight champion. Impressed by Mr. Toscanini's vigor, he ejaculated: "It would take four heavyweight champions to do it like he does...