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...misty June moon shone down on Madison Square Garden's Long Island City Bowl one night last week as a solemn prizefighter in a blue bathrobe climbed through the ropes. The plain Irish face of James J. (born Walter) Braddock was puckered with earnest anxiety. Improvident of his earnings when he was a top-flight light heavyweight seven years ago, 29-year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed...
When the referee warned Baer for hitting low, he made a ludicrous bow. When the champion noticed an acquaintance at the ringside, he waved a friendly greeting. When Braddock reached his face with stinging but unimportant jabs, Baer sounded a jolly ''Ho, ho!" But solemn, plodding Jimmy Braddock took the first three rounds...
...ablest jazz pianist in the British royal family is H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, known in the giddier portions of Mayfair as "P. G." (Prince George). In solemn mood Pianist "P. G." went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with...
...Tyranny" Up the first day of the Assembly jumped a Philadelphia commissioner to challenge the seating of three Machenite commissioners, all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days of solemn deliberation set off a churchly furor by voting 21-to-1 to unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find out that...
Same day at Southampton another group of people boarded another ship, which in her day had also been a Queen of the Seas. As they gathered round a long table under the dome of the main lounge, they were anything but gay. Most of them were solemn-faced businessmen in sack suits; a few were middle-aged women in fur coats. Like those on the Normandie, they had come for sentimental reasons-to bid for the fittings of R.M.S. Mauretania before that old & honorable ship should make her final journey to the shipbreakers' yards...