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...Best big-hat customer is Tom Mix, who buys them by the dozen, white or cream. Another is Publisher Amon Giles Carter of Fort Worth who pays $40 to $125 each, gives them away to Fort Worth visitors such as Lord Rothermere, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey...
...airplanes and 3,000 extras. An ocean liner was necessary to carry the workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey-Tunney fight, as he has been assigned to do, is blowing a toy pipe in a speakeasy. Discharged for incompetence, he gets drunk again the next night with better results. An advertising man who finds his conversation witty gives him a job. Presently Bruce Foster has a large suite of offices...
...debatable decision in his bout with Max Schmeling and who had previously been considered a shade the best of a mediocre group of U. S. heavy-weights-Monster Camera last week qualified for a bout with Max Baer, who knocked out Schmeling (TIME, June 19). Onetime champion Jack Dempsey, who, as promoter, has an option on Baer, last week began negotiations with Madison Square Garden Corp. which controls Carnera. for a Camera v. Baer bout to be held next year...
...Livermore, Calif., starting his career as a professional fisticuffer, killed an opponent named Frankie Campbell with his punches. That for a long time remained his most notable achievement. But a string of eleven victories over competent fighters in the last two years and the fact that Promoter Jack Dempsey thought Baer's Jewish ancestry (on his father's side) might make him popular in New York, qualified him last week as an opponent for Max Schmeling of Germany-intent on earning another chance at the world's heavyweight championship which Jack Sharkey took away from...
...know that Dempsey was offered as much as $500,000 to take one more shot. But deep in his mind was the nightmare of a thought that too much head punishment would do him little good, no matter how much money...