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Died. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, 65, essayist and short-story writer, wife of Princeton's English Department Chairman Professor Gordon Hall Gerould; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. A constant critic of jazz-age manners, she took time out in 1926 to cover the Dempsey-Tunney fight for Harper's Magazine...
Rommel was unquestionably preparing for such a showdown. Besides the four Panzer divisions already identified, he was reported to have at least three more in reserve. Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, commander of the Second Army, found that some prisoners were veterans from the Russian front. Their units had been moved to Caen within the last month...
...Dempsey said the enemy was in a "considerable turmoil," and that Nazi communications were "in a very sticky state" from Allied air attacks. But he added a quiet warning: the Germans had evidently massed the heaviest weight of armor ever wielded in western Europe. There was no doubt about it: the battle ahead would be an Armageddon...
Keith has already been taken on a California tour by Henry Armstrong, who says the youngster has "the greatest left I ever saw." Jack Dempsey and Max Baer admire the junior pugilist. Sportswriters who have seen him are enthusiastic. As for Keith himself, he simply proposes to lambaste his way to the championship of the world...
...first day at school in Chicago, Preston rode a bicycle and wore a Greek chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...