Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon and Schuster's "assertation that music publishing is for them ... a labor of love." Neither this nor the other Mr. S. has ever asserted that Essandess publish music as a labor of love. When we published the Schnabel edition of the Beethoven Sonatas in November I bet our sales-manager we'd break even on the venture within 14 months, and at lunch today volunteered to increase that bet. The Godowsky piano arrangements were published in "the same way: not as a six-weeks' bestseller, but as a work which through sheer merit and a halfway...
Last week Ernest R. ("Pop") Haselwood looked like a good bet against the field. Bus Transportation, McGraw-Hill trade journal, was tabulating returns in its contest, not to be decided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U. S. Owen Meredith of Enid. Okla. drove 976,800 miles without scratching a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedalia, Mo. turned up with a no-accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood of Chappell, Neb. in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a ''chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood...
Promoter Dickson's Boswell is ancient little Sparrow Robertson, sports columnist of the Paris Herald, in whose writings it is a 5-to-1 bet that Promoter Dickson's name will appear on any given day. Dickson's secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered...
...swimming, sailing, figure-skating and tennis. Before that, she had been up in an airplane with Grahame White (1910), paid a $25 fine for driving without a license and driven a four-in-hand coach down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on a January morning to win a $25 bet (1912). She had swum 4¼ miles, from Bailey's Beach to First Beach. Newport, and formed the nucleus of a collection of cups which, when she last counted them, numbered 240. She had also been one of New England's outstanding trapshooters. She once organized a football...
...George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed the Rappahannock, now 272 ft. wide, was 1,427 ft. wide...