Word: 46th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past 15 years, headquarters for vaudevillians in Manhattan has been the National Variety Artists' Club in West 46th Street. Many a legend surrounds the place. One is that a policeman, passing late one night, spied a group of men hanging around the front door. Thinking them loafers, he ordered them to move along. To the constable's surprise, one member of the group, a tumbler, complied by doing a series of back flips all the way up the sidewalk to Broadway. Last week the N. V. A. clubhouse itself entered legend. A $150,000 deficit closed its doors...
...were to fly 10,000 mi. annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in his 46th year; might be killed in the 668th. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every five years, prepare for death in the 35th. These chances are based on the civil air accident record for July-December 1930 published last week by the Department of Commerce...
Manager H. T. Wagstaff '32 of the 46th Annual Harvard Interscholastic Meet which will be contested in the Harvard Stadium next Saturday has accepted the entries from three additional schools, making a total of 49 preparatory and high schools which will send athletes to the meet...
...Said It. In the academic purlieus of Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, where Tait University of Good News was founded three years ago, last week another institution of learning was born. It was Kenton College, and to it flocked winsome Mary Lawlor, Funnyman Lou Holtz and the rest of the broad-trousered, brief-skirted cast of You Said It. In singing, dancing, funmaking, there was little to choose between Kenton and Tait...
...13th inning, after scoring 5 runs in the ninth to tie, 5-5, pulling even again 8-8 in the nth. In the third game burly Hack Wilson, Cub centrefielder, drove his 45th homerun of the season in the first inning with two men on base and his 46th in the fourth. That put him two homers ahead of the National League record, and two ahead of Babe Ruth of the American League. The Cubs won, 16 to 4, stayed .051 points ahead of the Giants who split even in last week's critical series with the Robins...