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...useful. Inevitably this involves to some extent the faculty of forgetting those who have been useful in the past, but sometimes a fighter's past catches up with him. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight champion of the world, defended himself against a suit brought by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, sports promoter, for approximately $500.000 back pay. Day by day the testimony showed the intricate process by which champions are made...
...Tunney got "tied ... up for in Philadelphia" was sued for in 1927 by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, potent Philadelphia racketeer. Hoff is reputed to have been promised $200,000 for supplying Tunney with a mysterious sort of "protection." That suit never went to trial...
...musicians. Mr. Skalski, 35, is energetic, hopeful. Three years ago he went to Chicago as a piano teacher, last year had an orchestra with which he gave six concerts. This year's program is based on the idea that crowds will flock to music if they can suit their own convenience as to time, as they do in going to the cinema. For 15 weeks three continuous programs will be played by Skalski daily. A typical program: classical music at 6:30 p.m., popular music at 8 p.m., semi-popular music at 9:30 p.m. The number of musicians...
...first picture Ruth Roland has made in years. She is the wife of a businessman who, faithless and cruel, tries to thwart her divorce. He accuses her of intimacy with a former suitor whom she met by accident on the train. A little child is involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone and also gives Miss Roland a chance to sing a lullaby. She talks, too, in a manner emphatically refined, and finally finds a way of escaping from troubles quite as turbid as those which, in her famous...
...brilliant idea of extracting the impurities, making commercial use of them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical Co., paid his board bill with stock. Midlanders viewed him with distrust and in 1900 brought suit charging that the Dow plants depreciated property, filled the town with vile and injurious odors. But by then Dow Chemical had been formed to take over Midland Chemical and another company Dr. Dow had formed; was well able to defend itself. Since 1900, Midlanders have changed their attitude toward Dow Chemical...