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...Morgan's Advice. In Salome, her most sensational European role, Jeritza literally cast off all seven veils. New Yorkers had to settle for less because the late John Pierpont Morgan, a Met backer, had Salome banished from the repertory at the advice of his pastor. This annoyed Jeritza into singing a concert version of the opera, which was at least wanton enough to give New Yorkers a vivid idea what they were missing...
...when Manhattan's volcanic, volatile little PM was a red-faced ($2,000,000 deficit) one-year-old, mewling in the arms of its editor-nurse, Ralph Ingersoll, he denned for an interviewer just how Backer Marshall Field felt about the prodigious infant. "Mr. Field," he explained, "compares PM in some ways with the Philharmonic Orchestra. No one thinks of disbanding the Philharmonic merely because it doesn't now support itself...
Dark-horse Steel's most prominent backer turned out to be Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace, who had written him a letter of endorsement saying: "I wish you all success." Democrats and Republicans were astounded. But Manhattan's Communists, seeing a chance for "an important labor victory" (and incidentally a Congressional partner for their idol Vito Marcantonio), were not surprised at all. They had already marshaled their forces...
Navy's underdogs charged hard (six-man line, with two close backer-uppers) and barely missed some important tackles. But to miss Blockbuster Doc Blanchard and Speedster Glenn Davis was disaster: Army scored in seven plays...
...James and Leslie Tillett had landed in Mexico five years ago, via Canada, Tahiti and the U.S. Captured by the country's gracious charm, the obvious opportunities for enterprising young men and the war's remoteness, the Tillett boys decided to stay. Soon they found a Russian backer, one Boris Litwin, who agreed to set them up in the family trade, the printing of designs on woolen fabrics...