I read that as he trained to fight Primo Carnera, Max received thousands of love letters. Did Max respond to them or did someone else ?
While Max was a prolific letter writer to family and friends, as a young bachelor he had a personal secretary, Joan Brewster, a young graduate from the University of Michigan, who initially responded to the love letters. Ms. Brewster soon became so disgusted by the often obscene nature of the letters sent to Max that she eventually refused to respond to them. As a joke, Max suggested to his trainer, Mike Cantwell, that he respond to a few. To everyone’s surprise, beneath the Irishman’s gruff exterior lurked the heart of a true poet. It was said that “some of his literary achievements in the name of Baer, are honeys that have left fair maidens from coast to coast trembling like burgeoning blossoms beneath the pulse and sweep of his persuasive rhetoric.” Eventually however, Cantwell was driven to the ultimate limit of his vocabulary in search of perfumed phrases, so that “half the time the harried trainer didn’t know whether he was kneading Max’s muscles or composing an ode to deathless
While Max was a prolific letter writer to family and friends, as a young bachelor he had a personal secretary, Joan Brewster, a young graduate from the University of Michigan, who initially responded to the love letters. Ms. Brewster soon became so disgusted by the often obscene nature of the letters sent to Max that she eventually refused to respond to them. As a joke, Max suggested to his trainer, Mike Cantwell, that he respond to a few. To everyone’s surprise, beneath the Irishman’s gruff exterior lurked the heart of a true poet. It was said that “some of his literary achievements in the name of Baer, are honeys that have left fair maidens from coast to coast trembling like burgeoning blossoms beneath the pulse and sweep of his persuasive rhetoric.” Eventually however, Cantwell was driven to the ultimate limit of his vocabulary in search of perfumed phrases, so that “half the time the harried trainer didn’t know whether he was kneading Max’s muscles or composing an ode to deathless
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