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...rare interview in 1929. George Morrow remarked: "We are like Tunney. We have never been beaten." At that time the statement was true. The Brothers Morrow, having migrated to Manhattan from a farm near Toronto, had taken a hand in Gold Dust Corp., been enormously successful in revamping American Cotton Oil Co., had built up an enviable reputation as smart corporate reorganizers. After 1929 the Morrows were once set back on their heels when United Cigar Stores, which they controlled, went bankrupt. But their troubles with United Cigar did not prevent them from acquiring another damaged retail chain last year...
...problem by which more aspiring heavyweights had been floored. After all, he had knocked out Tommy Loughran when Loughran was still the world's ablest boxer of his weight. Attracted by this line of reasoning, the biggest crowd that has watched a Chicago fight since the second Tunney-Dempsey set-to, a wildly eager 40,000 that included six State Governors (Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan), a sprinkling of socialites, most of the underworld, and 1,000 police with tear gas and Thompson sub-machineguns, crowded into Comiskey Park to see the excitement...
...learn that his 800 words fall short of Herbert Hoover's 1,100, he can reflect that he plays the leading role in 850 words on NRA. Other counts: Theodore Roosevelt, 1,400; Wilson, 1,350; Lenin. 1,050; Mussolini, 850; Hitler, 750; Einstein, 400; Chaplin, 180; Tunney...
...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...