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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among scores of other college baseballers singled out this year as big-league timber, there are a half-dozen far more famed (though less skilful) than either Borowy or Tipton. In the Yale line-up two of the most noteworthy players are Outfielder Eddie Collins Jr., son of the Baseball Immortal who helped bring fame to Connie Mack's pre-War Athletics, and Pitcher Joe Wood Jr., son of famed "Smoky Joe"* who won 34 games for the Red Sox in 1912. At Colgate another Immortal's son, Pitcher George Sisler Jr., has proved he is a chip...
...amount of cultural fuss it begets, music is unequalled among the arts. There are in the U. S. no less than 4,900 local music clubs, with a total of 500,000 lady members ready to defend the diatonic scale as they would defend their young. Last week 5,000 of them, smartly dressed and a little less bosomy than D. A. R. ladies, wound up in Baltimore the 21st biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, moved on to New York City for two days at the World's Fair...
...faulty registration statement are all the directors or partners in the firm issuing the securities, all the experts who attest to its accuracy, all the underwriters who float the issue. Last week a batch of these gentlemen was ordered in New York supreme court to stand and deliver. Among five so ordered was Charles H. Sabin Jr., eminently respectable son of the late president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...
...still heads the companies that sell the world these many devices ought to be a multimillionaire, but last week three creditors filed suit to put him in bankruptcy. For, outside of manufacturing, Ben Bendix, now 58, has had reverses since 1929. Among them...
...Most dangerous of all occupations is farming, according to Dr. John Howard Powers of the Bassett Hospital. Highest number of occupational deaths throughout the U. S. occurs among agricultural workers. But what hurts the farmers most often is not a reaper or a pitchfork, but a reckless motorist hurtling through country lanes...