It was June 24th, 1938, and a celebration was in order as pugilist Jack Dempsey, aka The Manassa Mauler, blew out candles for his 43rd birthday, accompanied by his third wife (of four) Hannah and daughter Joan. A year prior, Kyril Petrov Vassilev, a Bulgarian painter of royalty, had moved to the US and befriended Dempsey. He had started this painting only 10 days prior to this shot. As you can see, he worked quickly.
I Don't Get It 
Back in the days where elite athletes posed with a glass of booze in their hands. Or, as we call it, the good old days.
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By the way, nice header photo and ground beef was on sale today.
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Nice score! Spaghetti or hamburgers? Or something Fancy from the AJF?
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I think there is a plan to make meatballs to freeze for future spaghetti dinner and maybe a meat loaf.
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Mmm!
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I can’t for the life of me figure out why someone would want such a large portrait of themself hanging on the wall. Of course I am not famous either. I like your header shot. Is that a picture of cows being milked? I like milk and steak. The last couple of weeks I have found choice PSMO and prime strips on sale. Yes I do like steak.
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It’s nice to hear that beef is not at crazy high prices. I do like to put a roast in the slow cooker all day. Yes, those cows are just milk cows for butter. I agree that a large portrait would be unsettling.
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Me too. I enjoy.the whole pot roast deal with taters and carrots. So comforting.
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I so admire this work, Kerbey. Fast! And they don’t coin words like pugilist anymore, do they? It sounds like a fighter although it doesn’t have any signs of that word in it.
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Boy, they sure don’t make words like that anymore.
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Now that I think more, Kerbey, when people used to say someone had a ‘pug’ face, maybe they meant that person looked like they took punches like a boxer!
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That makes complete sense!
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