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...Chicago, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, battered ex-light-heavyweight champ, decided that he had been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his hair. Further, they had published a picture of him as a contrast to a picture of wavy-haired ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer. Slapsie wanted...
...making $50 a week after school. By determined practice, he had become a crack stenographer. About the time Billy won the Manhattan school speed championship, John R. Gregg, whose shorthand system Billy used, gave him a job as a demonstrator. Soon Rose could take 280 words a minute, real champ form. When he quit high school in his third year, he was making as much as $200 a week from his shorthand...
...first really "fair-weather" match so far, and the long-awaited absence of rain and cold resulted in lowered Varsity scores. Tyke Wilcox, number one man, pulled a 76 out of the bag to win his fourth individual match in five starts--he lost only to the Maine Amateur Champ--and no one tallied over...
...scorers, with 79, were Bill Rickenbacker, the home team's number three man, and LeBel, Bowdoin's top-ranker and Maine Amateur Open Champ...
Powerful Primo Camera, year-long heavyweight champ in the early '30s, was having trouble with his hands. In Knoxville, Tenn., he shook a sports promoter's hand, broke it-the promoter's-in two places. In Miami, Mrs. Rosalie B. Marano sued him for $25,000, charged that he had pawed her in an auto last February and she still hurt...