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...Gene Tunney, a writer who stands at the opposite pole from Hemingway, having abundantly established his prowess in action...
...Tunney. Seven U. S. millionaires composed party number one, headed by Wall Street's bear speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith. They included Bernard F. Gimbel, head of Manhattan's Gimbel's; Donald M. Smith, broker (no relation) ; F. S. Argnimbau; Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of The Bronx and backer of Franklin Roosevelt; Eddie Dowling, comedian; James Joseph Tunney, financier-sportsman...
...baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday...
...boys. Just make sure Babe Ruth heard about them. Following Saturday, Passaic's small heroes met some of their big heroes at the circus in Manhattan. Clyde Beatty. tamer of lions and tigers, shook their hands and gave autographs. Hugo Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them up to the Yankee Stadium soon, promises to try and knock a home-run in their honor...
...theory that a sincere national movement should enlist young blood to carry it through the years, and that it would excite U. S. schoolboys to be associated, even remotely, with characters like Gene Tunney (retired), Barry Wood (Harvard) and Mai Stevens (Yale), Com-mander Fred G. Clark of the Crusaders last week paid a visit to Lawrenceville School. Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott, bluff and hearty, was glad to call his boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among...