Beyond Glory
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“Had I found God himself”: LAuto, June 21,1936.
“For your wonderful victory”: Völkischer Beobachter, June 21,1936.
“In the twelfth round, Schmeling knocks out the Negro”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tage bücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.3/II, June 20,1936, p. 112.
“For the wonderful victory of your husband”: Völkischer Beobachter, June 21,1936.
“What joy, what deliriousness”: LAuto, June 20,1936.
“All of Berlin is joyful”: Ibid., June 21,1936.
“at a million-dollar angle”: Newark Star-Eagle, June 20,1936.
“Where’s all dem guys?”: United Press International, June 20,1936; “Youse newspaper guys, youse experts”: New York World-Telegram, June 20,1936.
“I’m even with the world! I’m even with the world!”: New York Herald Tribune, June 20,1936.
“I’m so happy”; “I leave here three years ago”: New York Herald Tribune, June 20,1936.
“I am a proud man”: Boston Herald-Traveler, June 20,1936.
Fighting is a profession: United Press International, June 20,1936.
“Please, tell my countrymen at home”: Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, June 20,1936.
“Heil Hitler”: Boston Herald-Traveler, June 20,1936.
“I’m Dreaming with Open Eyes”: Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, June 20,1936.
“wall of people”: Der Mitteldeutsche, June 21,1936.
“We knocked out that Brown Bomber”: New York Post, June 20,1936.
“I was the only one in Hollywood”: New York Herald Tribune, June 21,1936.
“We could not stand him, either”: Ibid.
“Germany—it vas going crazy”: New York Post, June 20,1936.
“You could understand better”: Ibid.
“Youse guys don’t know nothin’”: Ibid.
“Cover up yo’ face, Chappie”: New York Journal-American, February 3,1938.
“Is he hurt much?”: Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, June 20,1936.
“You just got tagged, Chappie”: New York World-Telegram, June 20,1936.
“You can’t get to him nohow”: New York Herald Tribune, June 20,1936.
“Everything was in a fog”: Detroit Free Press, June 20,1936.
“I sure didn’t mean to hit him low”: Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, June 20, 1936.
“Say, don’t forget that one Max hit”: Ibid.
“No, I ain’t going to retire”: Detroit Free Press, June 20,1936.
“That knockout was the best thing”; “Yes, maybe we can tell him sumthin’ from now on”: Ibid.
“I don’t want to resort to alibis”: Ibid.
“Joe Jacobs outsmarted us”: Los Angeles Times, December 21,1937.
“This fight will make him a great fighter”: New York Post, June 20,1936.
“Louis vs. Schmeling would draw”: Detroit Evening Times, June 20,1936.
“You mark my words”: United Press International, June 20,1936.
“Fighting’s a nailing business”: New York Sun, August 15,1936.
“Joe, your head looks like a watermelon”: Nagler, Brown Bomber, p. 68.
“Poor thing, he is sleeping”: Paris Soir, June 21,1936.
“She covered her face with her handkerchief”: Amsterdam News, July 4,1936.
“Schmeling made the chocolate drop”: Augusta Wallace Lyons to author, November 2001.
“every man you met had a five or six-to-one wager”: Philadelphia Record, June 21, 1936.
“Nothing can take the place of experience”: New York Herald Tribune, June 23,1936.
“Max smashed that nigger!”: Willie Smith with George Hoefer, Music on My Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist (New York: De Capo, 1975), p. 247.
MAX SCHLäGT JOE LOUIS IN DER 12 RUNDE K.O.: Mobile (Alabama) Press, June 20,1936.
“Big black, brown and yellow feet”: Philadelphia Tribune, June 20,1936.
“weeping desperately and wearing”: California Eagle, June 26,1936.
“Joe didn’t land a single good punch”: New York Evening Journal, June 20,1936.
“Schmeling has done boxing a service”: Daily Mail (London), June 22, 1936; “outrageous”; “should be made the means of national uprising and revolt”: Boxing, June 24, 1936.
“tap-tap-tapped his way”: New York Post, June 23,1936.
“as though his heart would break”: Walter White to Joe Louis, June 23, 1936, in NAACP papers, Library of Congress.
“Not even the worst days of the Depression”: Boston Chronicle, June 27,1936.
“The musician who usually thumps”: Ibid., July 4,1936.
“there was a deathly silence”: Buffalo Evening News, June 20,1936.
“That Louis let me down”: New Orleans Item, June 20,1936.
“just another Negro getting beaten by a white man”: Lena Horne and Richard Schickel, Lena (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975), p. 75.
GLOOM ENGULFING THE CITY’S HARLEM: Chicago Defender, July 4,1936.
“The blow came all the harder”: The Friend (Bloemfontein, South Africa), June 22, 1936.
“surged back onto the floor”: Mobile Register, June 20,1936.
“The people know now”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 27,1936.
“political Max Schmeling”: Daily Herald (London), June 22,1936.
“a one hour’s wonder”: Social Justice, June 29,1936.
“paraded in bedlamic pilgrimages”: New York American, June 21,1936.
“resembled midnight of New Year’s Eve”: Macon Telegraph, June 20,1936.
“Max the Great”: Interview, Max Wiley.
“talked at a rate”: Rand Daily Mail, June 20,1936.
“the limitless aversion of the colonial English”: Box-Sport, August 10,1936.
“What the race lost in money”: Chicago Defender, June 27,1936.
“An idol representing everything”: New York Post, June 20,1936.
“the Negro race went around”: Boston Guardian, July 23,1936.
“draped like a vulture’s wings”: Baltimore Afro-American, July 2,1938.
“From a conquering fistic idol”: Buffalo Evening News, June 20,1936.
“jungle cunning”: New York Sun, June 22,1936.
“reign of terror”: New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 21,1936.
“Joe Louis is just a legend today”: Chicago Daily News, June 20,1936.
“I-Told-You-So Day”: New York Mirror, June 21,1936.
“Pet Pickaninny”: Atlanta Journal, June 20,1936.
“Louis did what all the negro”: Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 22,1936.
“nigger,” “darkie,” “coon,” and “Sambo”: Chicago Defender, July 4,1936.
“that hinterland of barbarism”: Richmond Planet, June 27,1936.
“Americans are interested in money”: New York American, June 23,1936.
“Maybe the people in Germany”: Boston Globe, June 21,1936.
“the victorious German boxer raised his arm”: Angriff, June 21,1936.
“I will liberate Schmeling”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.3/II, June 24,1936, p. 115.
“the swarthy brunet with the narrow black eyes”: New York World-Telegram, September 2,1937.
“Germany, the land of the fastest race cars”: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, June 21, 1936.
“An achievement like that of Max Schmeling”: Der Führer, June 23,1936.
“My sacrificial lamb”: Bayerische Ostmark, June 22,1936.
“You know, the money is in this country”: New York Post, June 24,1936.
“a new Germany … a Germany that has faith in itself again”: Fränkischer Kurier, June 22,1936.
“saved the reputation of the white race”: Das Schwarze Korps, June 25,1936.
“confirmed the supremacy of a race”: Il Messaggero, June 20,1936.
“The Negro is of a slave nature”: Der Weltkampf, August 1936.
“made a one-sided and primitive impression”: Kreuz Zeitung, June 21
,1936.
“Beaten is not the right word”: Box-Sport, July 1, 1936.
“When an acquaintance said ‘The mind is just better’ ”: Völkischer Beobachter, July 8, 1936.
“Take good care of that”: Boston Sunday Post, June 21,1936.
“Joe’s all right”: New York Times, June 21,1936.
“I don’t think Louis is through”: Washington Post, June 21,1936.
“beaming like a school kid”: New York Daily News, June 22,1936.
“Should clean up”: Variety, June 24,1936.
“The End of the Reign”: Oshkosh Northwestern, June 23,1936.
“The Fight So Thrilling”: Zanesville (Ohio) Times-Recorder, June 27,1936.
“All this turning of coats”: New Republic, July 8,1936.
“Daddy, I could kill”: Walter White to Joe Louis, June 23,1936, in NAACP papers.
“If it were not for the deep tragedy beneath”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 27,1936.
“Was not that a surprise”: Chicago Tribune, June 22,1936.
“Brown Bouncer”: New York Times, June 22,1936.
“If a German”: The People (London), June 21,1936.
“two marvels of the Twentieth Century”: Lakewood (New Jersey) Daily Times, June 24, 1936.
“I just want to touch him!”: Ibid.
“Get Braddock ready!”: New York Daily News, June 24,1936.
Chapter Eight: Climbing Back
“lap of honor”: Box-Sport, July 1,1936.
“It seemed as if a hurricane were let loose”: Ibid.
“the greatest spokesman for Germany”: Hamburger Fremdenblatt, June 27,1936.
“We want to see our Schmeling!”: Box-Sport, July 1,1936.
“Frankfurt couldn’t have been more excited”: Paris Soir, June 28,1936.
“Even those of us who bet”: Transcript of radio broadcast, June 21, 1938, in Walter Winchell Papers, New York Public Library.
“Schmeling Knocks Out Jewish Horror Press”: Die Brennessel, July 7,1936.
“clobbered by a mulatto”; “loudmouthed manner”: Angriff, June 28,1936.
“And [Schmeling] says that he alone”: Ibid.
special “lighting car”: Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, June 27,1936.
“Lieber Max, sei Willkommen”: Völkischer Beobachter, June 28,1936.
“gave a running commentary and every time I landed a punch”: Schmeling, Erinnerungen, pp.363–64.
“Dramatic and thrilling”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, TI, Bd.3/II, June 28,1936, p. 119.
“the most worthless kitsch”: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 27,1975.
“a white man must not be beaten”: Los Angeles Times, June 25,1936.
“Heil Hitler!”; “Heil Germany!”; “Heil Schmeling!”: New York Times, July 5,1936.
“A Film That Concerns All Germans”: Box-Sport, July 6,1936.
“Long before the fight he was in excellent form”; “In every one of his movements”; etc.: Max Schmelings Sieg—ein deutscher Sieg, directed by Hans H. Zerlett, narrated by Arno Hellmis, edited by Albert Baumeister, Syndikat-Film Berlin (Tobis-Gruppe), 1936.
“as if they hadn’t known about the outcome of the fight before”: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, July 10, 1936.
“downright life-threatening”: Der Film-Kurier, July 10, 1936.
“Hollywood scarcely could have outdone the scene”: Associated Press, June 13,1938.
“joy-groggy”: Der Film-Kurier, July 10, 1936.
“the audience was literally shivering out of excitement”: Leipziger Beobachter, Nos. 15–16/1936, July 10,1936.
“An atmosphere of tension spread”: Box-Sport, July 19, 1937; “the biggest box office attraction of the season”: Chicago Defender, July 25,1936.
“decorated with red, swastika-ed ribbons”: Saturday Evening Post, August 29,1936.
offered a “dagger of honor” and the title of “Honorary Commander of the SA”: Schmeling, Erinnerungen, pp. 382–83.
“Nazi Max”: Daily Worker, December 20,1936.
“champion chasers”: New York World-Telegram, June 29,1936.
“When he went back to Germany and tossed himself”: Daily Worker, June 20,1937.
“It would seem that Schmeling made a mistake”: International News Service, January 9,1937.
“One nice thing about Joe”: Detroit Free Press, June 22,1936.
“hiding behind everything except a set of false whiskers”: Ibid.
“I saw the fight”: New York Journal-American, December 24,1953.
“the most outstanding athlete in the country”: Chicago Defender, July 11,1936.
“No angels sang”: New York World-Telegram, June 22,1936.
“Detroit and its people still believe in you”: Detroit Tribune, June 25,1938.
“What happened last Friday night”: Walter White to Joe Louis, June 23, 1936, in NAACP papers.
“I wanted him to know”: Walter White to John Roxborough and Julian Black, June 24, 1936, in NAACP papers.
“literally ill”: Walter White to John Dancy, June 24,1936, in NAACP papers.
“Joe is human and is just a kid yet”: Palmetto Leader, June 27,1936.
“Louis-Schmeling Fight”: Rounder Records Corp., Rounder 82161-1106-2.
“maelstrom of flattery”: Chicago Defender, June 27,1936.
“Coney Island trimmings”: Ring, September 1937.
“We wish Joe well”: Black Man, July/August 1936.
“would not have been worth”: Baltimore Afro-American, June 27,1936.
“Too much Mrs.”; “He should have married sooner”: New York Post, June 20,1936.
“professional jinxer”: New York Age, April 16,1938.
“slickster” had dropped a “deadening pill”: Amsterdam News, July 2,1938.
“daze producing chemical”: California Eagle, July 3,1936.
“specially prepared by a friend”: Pittsburgh Courier, July 11,1936.
“What kind of dope was used”: Indianapolis Record, July 11,1936.
“There was nothing wrong”: Kansas City Call, July 3,1936.
“Mr. Schmeling is a fine gentleman and a clean sportsman”: New York Sunday Mirror, July 5,1936.
“The town is gabbing about Joe Louis”: New York Daily News, June 26,1936.
“The mere fact that those back of”: Collyer’s Eye, June 27,1936.
“One thing I’m not going to write about”: Amsterdam News, June 27,1936.
“Joe Louis will be licked”: New York Morning Telegraph, June 21,1936.
“the Negro is all right”: Greensboro (North Carolina) Daily News, July 9,1936.
“Young or old, two hundred right hands”: New York Sun, June 23,1936.
“We think he will become”: New York American, August 15,1936.
“Negroes are now defiling”: Atlanta Daily World, June 21,1936.
“Don’t be a Joe Louis”: Amsterdam News, August 15,1936.
“I have nothing but pity and sympathy”: Philadelphia Tribune, June 25,1936.
“Joe Louis is not through!”: Pittsburgh Courier, July 4,1936.
“Joe Louis We Are with You”: Louisville Defender, June 27,1936.
“the thunder of boos”: Amsterdam News, September 26,1936.
“Guess I got a bit swell-headed”: Chicago Defender, August 8,1936.
“A carload of Jesse Owenses”: Baltimore Afro-American, July 18,1936.
“After a long, difficult, and unprecedentedly”: Völkischer Beobachter: August 4,1936.
“Pfennig über Alles”: Ken, June 18,1938.
“Max Schmeling’s business conferences”: New York Mirror, August 21,1936.
“only with the greatest difficulty”: Box-Sport, August 2,1936.
“I’ve heard lots about you!”: New York American, July 30,1936.
“Inwardly, many of us were trying to atone for Joe’s loss”: William J. Baker, Jesse Owens: An American Life (New York: Free Press, 1986), p. 84.
“exalted pews”: Daily Express (L
ondon), January 28,1938.
“popular justice to expiate”; “The white audience is cheering”: Angriff, December 12–13, 1936; “The people expected to see us eat”: Amsterdam News, August 22,1936.
“How was the zeppelin thing?”: New York World-Telegram, August 10,1936.
“A tractable Joe Louis”; “Now you are watching the real Joe Louis”: Pittsburgh Courier, August 15,1936.
“Chappie heah got believin’ all you newspapah”: New York Evening Journal, August 14,1936.
“He has tried to cram ten years of boxing lessons”: New York Daily News, August 18, 1936.
“go in for thinking on an extensive scale”: New York Times, August 18,1936.
“After they are through teaching him”: Associated Negro Press, August 10,1936.
“a washed up old man and an overballyhooed”: New York Daily News, August 18,1936.
A “burlesque”: New York Daily News, August 19,1936.
“very capable opponent”: New York Herald Tribune, August 19,1936.
“Schmeling was the luckiest man in the world”: Ibid.
“Joe’s mad at Schmeling, but Sharkey paid for it”: Nagler, Brown Bomber, p. 69.
“one long sustained guttural chant of victory”: Pittsburgh Courier, August 22,1936.
“they” were letting Louis be Louis again: Chicago Defender, August 22,1936.
“Youth must be served”: Detroit Evening Times, August 19,1936.
“I want Max Schmeling next”: New York Herald Tribune, August 19,1936.
Louis was “alright”; Sharkey had fought a “stupid” fight; “I could beat him every time I fought him”: New York Sun, August 20,1936.
“Not fifteen minutes before, Harlem was as quiet”: Baltimore Afro-American, August 22, 1936.
“nice little Frankenstein monster”: Daily Worker, August 26,1937.
“I hope the twenty-one doctors”: New York American, August 22,1936.
“By next June, some convenient excuse”: New York Mirror, September 6,1936.
“dreadfully and gnawingly”: Saturday Evening Post, August 29,1936.
“A Red Mob in Dinner Jackets”: New York Herald Tribune, August 23,1936.
“men in the background”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, August 19,1936.
“best friend among writers”: Saturday Evening Post, August 22,1936.
“Maxie stepped out from under again”: New York Mirror, December 13,1936.
“wanted a revenge that money”: Baltimore Afro-American, July 2,1938.