GREAT BRITAIN: No Shirt, No Fight

Decorous dinner-jacketed British fight fans and their evening-gowned ladies assembled last week at the London Stadium Club to witness a charity boxing tournament. Present at the ringside were:

In This Corner: Slender, snowy bearded George Bernard Shaw, vegetarian friend of James Joseph Tunney.

In That Corner: Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, sportsman, accomplished knitter (TIME, Nov. 25).

Announced to appear in a four round exhibition bout was gigantic Primo Carnera, seven-foot Italian fisticuffer (TIME, Oct. 28).

First Interlude:

In a...

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