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...program will start at 9.30 o'clock, when movies will be shown of the Henney-Tunney fight. At 10 o'clock O'Hara will start announcing and commenting on the returns at 20 minute intervals." He will be introduced by Edward Morley '29, president of the Debating Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION RETURNS FOCUS POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT | 11/6/1928 | See Source »

...James Joseph Tunney took a year lease on a house in smart Mayfair, London, which they hope to kindle into a literary salon with the aid of George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, et al. Meanwhile, it was reported that retired Fisticuffer Tunney had agreed to fight five British heavyweights in one evening-all, however, for the good of charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Faust (George Gaul) was seen early in the evening, moaning his discontent. Though often he voiced the assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...fair, long the scene of the inconsequential activities of characters in novels, is about to receive the leader of the only art in which personal supremacy is incontestably provable at one blow. Second in national importance only to Colonel Lindbergh, Mr. Tunney feels that this is the best way to acquire the liberal education which heretofore time has not allowed him to pursue just what led him to feel that the epitome of world culture is contained within this glittering district is not clear. Perhaps Iris March told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'CAUSE I LIKED HER TOO MUCH | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...sojourn in the forest of Arlen; that is, if he can see the forest for the trees. The English speaking world will rise up as a man to thank him if he debunks the pseudo-sophisticate as thoroughly as he triumphed over the fight game. But Mr. Tunney really deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking the spice out of the intelligentsia. His fistic traditions should prompt him to pick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'CAUSE I LIKED HER TOO MUCH | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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