Too Much Excitement
•American papers estimate that an audience running into millions listened to the broadcast description of the Dempsey-Tunney -fight from the American stations. So’ great was the excitement at times, it is also stated, that several listeners died at their sifts of excitement —-two in Detroit, two in New York,, and one in California. With such a huge number- listening in, of course, it would be unusual if y, few did not choose that half-hour or so to die, although probably the excilemeut was. partly responsible.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16534, 29 December 1927, Page 3
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88Too Much Excitement Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16534, 29 December 1927, Page 3
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