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...cocktails cost a quarter and a quart of the best whiskey sold for .75. The present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne .75; the prices of the punches and miscellaneous mixed drink.; Planters Punch .45, Claret Punch .35, Brandy Egg Nogg .50, Tom Collins .35, Gin Rickey .25, Ward "8" .45. The fizzes and sours range from .30 to .45, and the highballs from...
...gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate's day was done when Vice President Dudley S. Blossom stepped forward and said he would be the big backer. Conductor Sokoloffs contract was not renewed. Mrs. Hughes's resignation was accepted. She was set to handing out routine publicity notices. Two guest conductors were tried out: England's Sir Hamilton Harty and Artur Rodzinski, the wavy-haired...
AmherstL Shields, g,; Winston, r.f.b.; Maynard Blossom, l.f.b.; Abererombie, Lewis, r.h.b.; Klaer, r.e.f.; Grose, Mahoney, r.i.f.; Nelson, c.f.; Davidson. Smith, l.i.f.; Allis, Clark, l.e.f...
...plant belonging to Charles Curie of Cornwall, N. Y. began pushing a stalk bud up through its central core. At once he had the plant dug out of his greenhouse and trucked to the Bronx Park Botanical Gardens where experts could replant it in the open and study its blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom, but no bud opened. Crowds came to gape...
Citizens of San Gabriel, Calif., looking up one day last week, saw a figure drop over the edge of a plane in the sky, a parachute blossom out. The wild plane flew on until it was over the city, dived steeply, then leveled out at 1,000 ft. and headed for the business district. Rocking and zigzagging, it finally lunged toward the railroad station, veered at the last second and ripped into a line of telegraph wires, flopped over, fell into the backyard of an empty house. A sigh of relief breathed through San Gabriel. A minute later Pilot Morrie...