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...excuse for growing cotton was put forward in the South last week. Dr. Edward Willam Alton Ochsner, highly respected surgeon of Tulane University, wrote Governor Thomas Bailey of Mississippi that cotton is the best material for stitching up wounds...
...Alton) Rinker can remember when he and his friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues...
...railroad president in the country would buy "Pioneer." For months it lay useless in the Chicago and Alton yards. Then, in the spring of 1865, on the day Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Chicago, George Pullman found his opportunity. Mrs. Lincoln was on that train and she wanted to go through to Springfield that night. George Pullman's offer of his car was accepted. Station platforms and bridge railings were ripped apart so that the broad-beamed monster could...
...premiere was the printing of programs without any writing or production credits, but the show isn't that bad. The book is over-written and badly timed, the direction shoddy. The musical numbers as usual are far better, though only two are really solid from start to finish. Bob Alton's dances and Vernon Duke's music are sprightly and novel, but not up to their previous levels. So we might as well sing the old refrain: "By the time it reaches New York...
Some railroads are doing even better. Far-flung Northern Pacific last week reported eight months' profits at $5,787,000 against $3,227,000 last year; up-&-coming Alton Railroad cleared $1,752,000 v. $80,000; giant Union Pacific (whose up-from-the-tracks boss is now U.S. rubber tsar) bounced profits 133% to $25,106,000; once-busted Erie netted a record-smashing $9,124,000 against $5,292,000 last year...