WHEN HEROES MEET.
NEW YORK, May 13. Gene Tunney, the world’s champion boxer, and Clmrles Lindbergh, the aviator, met by appointment recently, and compared notes. They both agreed it was a nuisance being a hero. As they shook hands, Tunnery said: “I have it all over you in one thing —I can retire; you never can.” Harold Lloyd, the movie comedian, leads the laughter at the spectacle of Lindbergh and Tunney exchanging secrets tor avoiding crowds. “When I want to disappear, which is frequently,” he says, “I just don’t wear my spectacles. The crowds don’t know me from Jack Jones or Billy Hughes, when I have them off. “I know other remedies for acute cases of crowd exposure. Mary Pickford hides behind blue goggles, a veil and a broad-brimmed hat every time she goes shopping, but perhaps Lindbergh and his Shakespearean friend could get along without a hat and a veal.” (Tho jibe about the “Shakespearean friend” refers to Tunney’s recent address on Shakespeare at Harvard University.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18469, 22 May 1928, Page 9
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