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Keeping it Real. Adler, decked out for the 1927 Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight fight in Chicago, often explained that she had to become a madam “because I wasn’t pretty enough to be a hustler.” (From the Polly Adler collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera)
From the Polly Adler collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera