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Ever since a khaki-colored Detroit Negro made it clear by a long string of knockout victims climaxed by Primo Carnera that he was the most devastating hitter among heavyweight pugilists since Jack Dempsey, a smoking question in the prizefight business has been whether or not Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) can take a punch as well as give one. The difficulty has been caused by the fact that none of Louis' adversaries, since he turned professional a year ago, has proved capable of staying in the ring with him long or actively enough to answer it. Louis' bout...
Next day in Paris the Correctional Court fined famed U. S. "Poetess of Naked Rhythm" Joan Warner 50 francs ($3.32) after a witness had testified that he could see what her cache-sexe (G string) was supposed to hide when she did her so-called Slave Dance (TIME, July 22). Unwittingly she confirmed Equity-man Gillmore's point about coolie wages paid to U. S. dancing girls abroad. Protesting her $3.32 fine, Miss Warner cried: "This means that I may have to pay as a fine every penny I make for my performance, in case somebody wants to bring...
...spills out a few samples of available cosmetics while everywhere lithe young lady Narcissists skate, ski, sail, dive, fly, play tennis, pose with bubbles or just leap for joy. At the extreme right is a modernistic chair from which to emphasize the advantages of beauty through the centuries, a string of pearls have fallen and on which rest a gentleman's silk hat & gloves...
...Lusitania, he got the first installment (about $1,000,000) of a fortune which he will continue to inherit by quarters every four years. From his mother, daughter of the late Captain Isaac Emerson (Bromo Seltzer) of Baltimore, twice married since his father's death, he received the string of horses which she had raced under the name of the Sagamore Stable. An enthusiastic turfman, which the senior Vanderbilt was not, young "Al" promptly set out to enjoy his birthday presents. Because Cavalcade and High Quest made 1934 Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's year, the efforts...
...world's heavyweight championship. When it was over they took it for granted. If and when he becomes heavyweight champion-by beating Max Schmeling next September, then Max Baer, and finally Champion Braddock-Joe Louis will be handicapped in his enjoyment of that honor by the most absurd string of nicknames, the most dazzling rise to fame and possibly the most extraordinary temperament in the history of his sport...