Originally posted by RachelB
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They disliked him because he beat the people's favourite Jack Dempsey. The famous photo of him reading a book was just to make a newspaper story, and because he was also courting a girl from a well known Society family at the time, it was used to give people the impression that, all-in-all, he had become "too big for his breeches". Swelled headed in other words.
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