Word: baer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four-round bout against Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in the Chicago Stadium. Instead of treating the affair as a friendly exhibition, Champion Baer insulted King Levinsky when they met before the fight, affronted him further by insisting on dangerous 6 oz. fighting gloves instead of the soft 8-oz. ones customary in exhibition fights...
...Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...
Instead of covering the shortage, Barry & Baiata soon approached Van Derck with a proposition for "financing" in the same manner a "Barry Special" train to the Carnera-Baer fight in Manhattan. That, they said, would net sufficient profits to pay off the $172 shortage, leave something extra for all. The "Barry Special" was a flop, and Clerk Van Derck, now into the bank for $1,100, was asked to finance two concessions at the Chicago Fair ? a Chinese Show in The Bowery and the Hall of Champions where a stable of broken-down fisticuffers pummeled each other nightly. Both...
...bout set for November 24, will be Carnera's first since he lost his title to Max Baer...
...time of George I. The Commodity Exchange was formed there in May 1933 by a merger of the Rubber, Silk, Metals and Hide Exchanges. All four had been sponsored by the same group of commodity traders? Francis Robinson Henderson, who made and lost fortunes in rubber; Lawyer Julius B. Baer; Jerome Chester Cuppia, partner in E. A. Pierce & Co.; and Jerome Lewine, partner in H. Hentz & Co. A fifth venture, the Burlap & Jute Exchange, was a failure. One year ago the Commodity Exchange moved to its present quarters in the International Telephone & Telegraph Building, a few doors west of Hanover...