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...prowl for a likely vote getter in next December's Senate elections, the Australian Republican Party went to a promising place. Adelaide's Charles Birk's department store, picked out a $25-a-week salesgirl, broad-shouldered, brunette Olympic Swimming Champion Dawn Fraser, 23. Figuring that her five world records would make her all but unbeatable in swim-conscious Australia, the party invited Dawn to carry its banner but got a polite brush-off. "I understand one of the party's aims is to do away with the royal family." said loyal Monarchist Dawn...
Died. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, 73, onetime $3-a-week Wall Street delivery boy who made and lost thousands on market tips, parlayed a string of good ones into a $150,000 New York Stock Exchange seat in 1926, reportedly made $10 million selling short in 1930; of complications following heart surgery; in Houston. Smith earned his nickname when the market collapsed on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929. by rushing into his office shouting: "Sell 'em. They're not worth anything...
Madame Mustache of Nevada City, Calif., who ran a square game with free champagne for all, made men remove their hats when gambling, and forbade them to brawl or use naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including a portrait of Canfield that Whistler called His Reverence...
...made me feel "warm all over" to read that the machine operator laid off by Warner Gear is receiving a $30-a-week unemployment benefit from the United Auto Workers. This was caused by the fact that the money for these benefits comes from a fund established solely by company contributions, and the benefits are paid in accordance with the terms of a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan (SUB) agreed to by Warner Gear and UAW Local...
...girl in the bath towel will soon try to blackmail the company. When the girl turns out to be a researcher on his magazine he offers her a $200-a-week raise and even a wedding ring, which she accepts, to the relief of Leading Man Martin, who obviously found small pleasure in his Night's Work because...