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...friend who can be useful to another who can be more useful. Inevitably this involves to some extent the faculty of forgetting those who have been useful in the past, but sometimes a fighter's past catches up with him. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight champion of the world, defended himself against a suit brought by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, sports promoter, for approximately $500.000 back pay. Day by day the testimony showed the intricate process by which champions are made...
Julius Fleischmann; Edgar Allan Poe; Lawrence Mervil Tibbett ;Lammot du Pont ;Peter Bernard Kyne; James Jeremiah Wadsworth ;Alexander J. Cassatt; Malcom W. Greenough; Paul Hyde Bonner ;James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney ;William E. Boeing ;John N. Garfield ;Philip Richard Mather; Edward Aloysius Cudahy; Lester Armour; William H. Mitchell; Sturtevant Erdmann; Pierrepont D. Schreiber...
Among firstnighters were Mary Louise ("Texas') Guinan and James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney. Scholar Tunney went behind between acts, offered Miss Cowl his "fe-li-ci-ta-tions" on a "per-fect-ly de-light-ful'' performance...
...other reasons, leaving a total of 29,704 compared to 28,805 in the 15th edition. Notable are inclusions and exclusions of the 16th edition. Included, for example, are Jackie Coogan, Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., many a newly famed industrialist. Not included are Greta Garbo, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, Tobacconist George Washington Hill. The preface explains that in 1900 Who's Who listed one in about 8,000 of the general populace. Now it lists one in about 4,000. Statistics would therefore argue that some day (specifically, in the year 2290) the Personages of the U. S. will...
...make use of one of its first exports, tobacco. When you get off the train at his home town you are immediately faced with a large U. S. cigaret advertisement. In the last century Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy his birthplace. Retired Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney professes to admire his works above those of all other authors. Last week, by the will of a retired tycoon -Henry Clay Folger, onetime (1911-23) president of Standard Oil Co. of New York-the U. S. acquired a collection of the works of William Shakespeare "not even surpassed...