Bringing in the Dempsey Fight

expanded within a year. It sports a picture of a deluxe Deforest—Crossley radio, flanked on either side by an impressive list of radio equipment manufacturers being handled by The Island Radio Company. The banner now was in gothic script.

Shortly after Dad took on the Deforest-Crossley dealership, a com- petitor appeared on the scene. The Marconi Corporation appointed James A. Gesner as its dealer. Jim Gesner had a welding and vulcanizing business. In another few years he was to play a leading role as Dad’s competitor in the broadcasting business as well.

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