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Mary Josephine Lauder, fiancee of retired Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney, sailed on the Saturnia for Italy, where a wedding loomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Fight. The first audiences at The Big Fight were composed in large part of dapper and gruesome characters who in no way resembled the admirers of Gene Tunney. It is claimed that among the good qualities of its star, famed Pugilist Jack Dempsey, is the ability to remember persons who "remember him when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...program has been arranged. Open house will be held at the Harvard Union and a special wire has been strung to enable listeners to secure the election results. Neal O'Hara '15, of the Boston Herald, has promised his services as announcer. At 12 o'clock pictures of the Tunney-Heeney fight will be shown and refreshments are to be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATES PLAN TO STIR FALL POLITICAL FIRES | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

With Robert Benehley in the same reel of talkies as Bernard Shaw, and the boy from Kiskiminetas telling mother what the fellows down in C-entry, Persis Smith, think of birth control, and Mr. Tunney off to his love with a boxing glove, ten thousand miles away, instances of distinguished courage among the educated are growing many. But each of these heroes has his audience, and can forget the sordidness of it all in the bitter-sweet taste of his own exhibitionism. What comfort can be given to the Senior, unfortunate in possessing emotional and romantic nerve centers that were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEARD IN A CLOISTER | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

...portraits are distinguished by concentration upon pattern and composition and by a unique green which he uses in his flesh tints. Lavery has painted the British Royal family with notable success; a man of strong and erratic enthusiasms, he last week proposed to portray Prize-fighter Gene Tunney whom he met at a banquet. "He is the favorite of the Gods," exclaimed Sir John, "Someone ... I myself . . . should paint him for the Royal Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Faces | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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