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They were putting together a new musical, Hold Everything, based on the million-dollar fight racket which Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney had so magically inspired. They had some nice tunes by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson: You're the Cream in My Coffee, Don't Hold Everything. They had Betty Compton. They had Victor Moore. They had a part for Lahr - a punch-drunk fighter named Gink Schiner. What...
Nowadays more than 100,000 copies of test booklets go to more than 2,000 schools and colleges three times a year. Many instructors award prizes provided by TIME to the students who score, highest in each class. Some winners over the years: Gene Lauder Tunney (the ex-champ's son), John de Cuevas (John D. Rockefeller's great-grandson), Margaret Truman (see cover...
...Einstein has written on spacetime, and H. L. Mencken on Americanism; Shaw wrote on socialism, Trotsky on Lenin. But Editor Yust sometimes travels far from the world of doctorates and Nobel Prizes. For his expert on nightclubs, he picked the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley; for boxing, Gene Tunney; for rodeo, Cowboy "Foghorn" Clancy...
...Future's technique is to prepare 15-minute radio broadcasts on current events which local sponsors present all over the country. A good many of these programs avoid controversy; the president of the New York Stock Exchange discusses how everyone can invest his money in stocks. Or Gene Tunney talks on "Play the Game--the American...
...Other ex-heavyweight champs who tried, and failed, to regain their titles: Gentleman Jim Corbett, 33, against Jim Jeffries in 1900; Bob Fitzsimmons, 40, against Jeffries in 1902; Jeffries, 35, against Jack Johnson in 1910; Jack Dempsey, 32, against Gene Tunney...