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...half interest in the majority stock, plus the duty of managing New York Shipbuilding. Cord bought. Mr. Manning and Cord-chosen directors took over the management but the names of Smith & Bragg appeared nowhere as stockholders. Their interest was hidden behind the name of one director: James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney...
...nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics. It was not Mr. Will Shakespeare's fault that Mr. Tunney, after he had retired from the ring with his million, began delivering lectures about Mr. Will Shakespeare's plays." And though he cannot cast more than a flickering light on the puzzling questions he cheerfully mopes over, there is sometimes a reassuring enthusiasm in his incoherence: "You have...
...first of a series of articles on the publishing business. "More than anything else," he says, "it is the variety of human contacts that, to me, makes publishing exciting and glamorous." He continues by telling in an interesting way some anecdotes concerning Mrs. Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, Gene Tunney, and George Moore...
...Otto Van Derck was taken in by two notable persons. Dave Barry was the notorious long-count referee of the second Dempsey-Tunney fight in 1927. Lately he has been running a saloon on Chicago's West Madison Street three blocks from Clerk Van Derck's bank. At Amalgamated Dave Barry kept a joint account with Joseph Baiata, a onetime barber who is supposed to have taught Charles Ponzi all that swindler knew. Joe Baiata served five years in jail for helping himself to $200,000 in a Massachusetts bank, and be fore that he helped wreck a big Buffalo...
...appealing piece was a solemn Kewpie-like head of a child called Marnie. That Mr. Sturm was already developing a fashionable following was indicated by some of his other subjects: Washington's Mrs. George Eustis, Long Island's Mrs. Ellwood Hendrick, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Hope Williams, Gene Tunney. Strongest of the lot was his deeply creased portrait of William McFee...