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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard that Montague had, 1) played Crosby using a baseball bat, a rake and a shovel and beaten him, 2) broken the course record at Palm Springs four days in a row, with a 61 the last day, 3) picked a bird off a telegraph wire with a golf ball at 170 yards, 4) been called by onetime U. S. Amateur Champion George Von Elm, who had played with him daily for a month, the "greatest golfer in the world." Sportswriter Rice played several games with John Montague. In his Sportlight, Grantland Rice substantiated Golfer Von Elm's opinion...
...Home Journal, Bruce & Beatrice Gould (man & wife), were unable to find any quotes from the Bok editorials to run with the de Kruif-Parran article to prove that Bok said it first many years ago.' But it can fairly be said that Editor Bok pitched the first ball, even though it was a roundhouse curve...
Easy Living (Paramount). When Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is riding downtown on top of a Fifth Avenue bus, a sable coat lands on her head. Enraged because the feather in her hat is broken, she insists that J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter...
...Club. There one sweltering day last week, after a few rounds of cool Budweiser, some 35 financial newshawks sat down at a long table as the guests of Robert Ralph Young, amiable spokesman-member of the trio which bought control of the Van Sweringen railroad empire from George A. Ball, the Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar tycoon (TIME, May 3). It was quiet Mr. Young who described himself and his two partners-Allan P. Kirby and Frank F. Kolbe-as "just babes in the woods." Last week the "Babes" started out of the woods. Before the luncheon in Rockefeller Center...
Originally the plan was to use the ax on Chesapeake, retaining Alleghany, which was the company the "Babes" bought from old Mr. Ball. But of the two, Chesapeake had a far better name with the public, and Messrs. Young, Kirby & Kolbe have demonstrated an uncommon flair for public relations. To newshawks last week Mr. Young handed photostats of the chart used by the Wheeler committee during the Washington hearings on the Van Sweringen empire. Through all holding companies which have been, or would be, segregated or eliminated on completion of the Alleghany-Chesapeake merger, Mr. Young had drawn heavy black...