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...exhibits pugilism's backstage activities in bars, night clubs and areaways with such faithfulness that an audience of sportswriters, managers and boxing officials invited to a Manhattan preview last week amused themselves by trying to identify the characters. Said Madison Square Garden's jaunty Fight-Promoter Jimmy Johnston, who is currently embroiled with the New York State Athletic Commission, when Nick Donati tells Ward to meet him at the Commission's office: "That guy can't be me. The Commissioners...
...clear that Messrs. Braddock, Louis, Schmeling, Gould, Kilpatrick, Roxborough, Johnston, Jacobs (bis), the Chicago promoters and the esteemed New York Athletic Commission intend to go right ahead with whatever they are doing in this heavyweight matter, 'de jure' or by 'force majeure' (Lincoln v. Douglas, 1860, U. S., and McLarnin v. Canzoneri, N. Y., 1936) and the whole action is thus left in escrow. Whatever the verdict, the promoters will pay costs...
Howard P. Hall, of Dorchester, Ira G. Hedrick, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, assistants in Civil Engineering; Robert M. Hutchinson, of Narbeth, Pennsylvania, Lauriston P. Winsor, of Johnston, Rhode Island, assistants in Electrical Engineering...
When J. (for James) Rion McKissick graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1905, he was voted not only the biggest eater and best writer but the most accomplished orator in his class. Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin D. Johnston and a deputation of State officials gathered in the University's field house to inaugurate Alumnus McKissick, who had worked up from the editorship of the Greenville Piedmont through the deanship of the University's school of journalism, as the University's 19th president. Big, baldish Orator McKissick lived up to his undergraduate...
...white. In Los Angeles last week, G-men were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal had dug up a lurid story about the brown "God's" chief West Coast "angel," broken it to the G-men and was playing it for all it was worth in his Hearstpaper. The U. S. Attorney in Los Angeles last...