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Up Go Salaries. Unable to agree on drafting players, the two leagues were knocking each other out in bidding for college football stars. The average salary had been bid up from $4,000 to $8,000 for a four-month playing season. There were just not enough pro football fans...
What Will the Traffic Bear? In Philadelphia and Cleveland, club owners vied for the privilege of trying to sign such top 1948 college stars as Nevada's champion passer, Stan Heath, Southern Methodist's snake-hipped quarterback, Doak Walker (who still has another year of college play), Pennsylvania...
Harvard's Professor Demos had posed his problem specifically about Pianist Walter Gieseking, who had played at Joseph Goebbels' bidding. But in varying degrees other musicians had been tarred with the same brush: Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had once taken a Nazi post, but who fought...
The first bid was 15,000 guineas ($51,000). According to legend, a tipsy hack driver, without a quarter in his pocket, kept raising the bidding until it reached $100,000. Actually, 75 seconds after the bidding opened, Australian Industrialist W. J. Smith got the horse for about $88,000...
"Lotsa Luck." On the way back to the Hotel Roosevelt, Dewey's car suddenly stopped, and he stepped out with Mrs. Dewey. They strolled through the sidewalk crowds, Dewey politely doffing his Homburg to amazed passersby, bidding them a gracious good morning. "Lotsa luck, Dewey," yelled a cab driver...