Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with John's fun-loving brother, Adolph...
...Washington, weary Sir Wilfrid Eady sighed: "It is no fun for us, and for a few weeks it will be no fun for this country." This was typical British understatement. For a few years, at least, world economics was going to be no fun whatever for anybody...
Arrested and jugged overnight for drunkenness were John D. Spreckels III, 38, one of the playboys who share the Spreckels sugar fortune, and his curlylocked third wife, Lou Dell, 37. Heretofore John's fun-loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered...
...doubles, sometimes for big side bets. Last fall at the Los Angeles Club, Big Jake (teamed with Segura) won $1,000 from Riggs (teamed with Frank Parker). But, by unspoken agreement, the two have never so much as suggested playing singles against each other since 1941-even for fun. When & if they do, it will be in Madison Square Garden, before a packed house, for important money. For Jake Kramer knows that, although "tennis is a game of no use in itself," it is useful to a man-especially a champion-with a desire to improve his position...
...something; and the finale-a sort of genteel Walpurgisnacht in an enormously enlarged Gramercy Park-nearly picks the heavy show up and carries it places. The picture has really attractive songs by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher (best: Let's Stay Young Forever and People Have More Fun Than Anyone...