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...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...
...Annie Laurie and Auld Lang Syne; a neighing, galloping horse (Eddie Cantor was a wrong guess); cat yowls; a horn tootling. Columnists and rocking-chair dopesters were certain they had it. Some of the "sure things": Sir Harry Lauder, George Gallup, Mayor O'Dwyer, Jack Benny, Gene Tunney, All-America Fullback Doak Walker...
...Gene Tunney, most scholarly of the ex-world heavyweight champs, turned up in the Saturday Review of Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
...George Bernard Shaw, who watches his diet, went a thoughtful tribute from Literary Heavyweight Gene Tunney, who also watches his: a shipment of nuts, apples, pineapples, dates...
Pounding his own stomach to stress the point, Tunney rummaged in his Shakespeare pocket for an apt quote. He found one-"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-but abandoned it with a nervous laugh in midline. The rest of the quote: ". . . he thinks too much. Such men are dangerous...