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Fewer Phonies. In California, Joe is a member of the State Athletic Commission, president of the Pony Baseball Leagues (for boys from 12 to 15), and the donor of a sports trophy room to U.C.L.A. containing such mementos as Babe Ruth's bat and the trunks Gene Tunney wore the night he won the championship from Jack Dempsey. Joe thinks he is the only man living to have two athletic fields named after him: one in his home town of Hoigate, Ohio, the other at U.C.L.A., which has made him an honorary undergraduate (Joe never got beyond the ninth...
...Miami Beach, the Union Pacific Railroad, Coca-Cola, Owens-Illinois Glass, the Indianapolis Speedway and 30-odd others. It was Steve Hannagan-a pressagent with an unabashed circus flair-who made the bathing girl a stock shot for the American press, and who persuaded newspaper readers that Prizefighter Gene Tunney was really a Shakespearean scholar...
...years." He speaks French, German, Italian and Spanish, has lived in Yucatan and Rome, Hong Kong and New Haven. He has sat at the feet of Gertrude Stein, stood by the sickbed of Sigmund Freud, acted as interpreter for Ortega y Gasset, hiked down the Rhone with Gene Tunney, hobnobbed with a Chicago gunman named Golfbag...
...town in the U.S. where the decathlon is the most popular after-school pastime, Coach Dean is guilty of understatement. In Tulare (pronounced to Larry), Bob Mathias is rated, quite simply, as the greatest athlete in history-a sort of peerless combination of Jack Armstrong, Frank Merriwell and Gene Tunney. Says one admiring Tularean: "No matter who you are, you've got to like him if you've seen him the way we have. If you were a mother or father, Bob's the kind of guy you'd want for a son; if you were...
...drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater, room for sport (Gene Tunney learned to box in the Greenwich House basement). A gay, grandmotherly type, Mrs. Sim once said: "I hate to be pictured as a lovely woman doing good. I'm really pretty realistic...