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Died. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, 65, essayist and short-story writer, wife of Princeton's English Department Chairman Professor Gordon Hall Gerould; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. A constant critic of jazz-age manners, she took time out in 1926 to cover the Dempsey-Tunney fight for Harper's Magazine...
...that Commander Gene Tunney was led over an hour and 20 minutes of jungle trail to an advance post in Bougainville (TIME, Jan. 10). True. But Tunney was not taken up that difficult mountain trail to see how Marines were "taking it." . . . The Marines had been relieved by soldiers. You report also that on the way back the "45-year-old, 210-pound Tunney set the pace with a dogtrot, kept his followers puffing...
Gentlemen. ... It was all Tunney could manage to get down the trail at all, any old way, let alone trying to "dogtrot." You have to see the Bougainville terrain to appreciate how tortuous it is. Although he is in excellent condition, I think that he will be first to admit that the bulk of the "puffing" was done by none other than Gene Tunney himself...
...Says Commander Tunney: "There were Marine scouts all around. As for the party having trouble keeping up, actually we had to wait 15 minutes for the Army photographer. Both parts of the criticism are wrong...
Lieut. Commander Gene Tunney wanted to see how the Marines were "taking it," took it pretty well himself when he was rapidly led over one hour and 20 minutes of jungle trail to an advance post in Bougainville. On the way back, 45-year-old, 210-lb. Tunney set the pace with a dogtrot, kept his followers puffing...