Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noticeable in the comparatively small crowds that attend the A. A. U. boxing championships each year are certain shabby individuals who stand in the corridors of Madison Square Garden, munching on unlighted cigars, spitting thoughtfully. They are professional fight managers on the lookout for good material. They do not bother to look at most of the fights because they know before the tournament starts which fighters are worth watching. Last week the members of this group spent most of their time in or near the dressing room of Eddie Flynn, a Loyola University dentistry student who was defending his championship...
...teeming with a lot o'news-with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!" * He has also a pretty knowledge of astronomy, and chemistry he knows but does not care for. Many offers came in. Last week this Modern Major General made his choice: not to bother with matters mathematical but to return to his native state, head the military department of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. General Smith went to West Point in 1928 as superintendent, found it "in excellent shape academically," but not so good for training soldiers. He made extensive plans...
...announced that he would retire at 70 next month. Dr. Cutler will travel in Europe with his third wife who was a member of the Mount Hermon faculty when he married her in 1927. Later he will settle near Mount Hermon, but not so near as to "bother" his successor whom he nominated himself: Elliott Speer, son of Dr. & Mrs. Robert Elliott Speer...
What Publisher Thomason was going ahead with was a plan to abandon the unprofitable Saturday edition of his evening tabloid and publish instead a Sunday edition. Why did he bother to talk it over with Publisher McCormick, with whose Sunday Tribune he would compete, and not with Publisher Homer Guck of Hearst's Herald & Examiner with which he would also compete? Because Publisher Thomason was for nine years vice president and general manager of the Tribune. On the walls of Publisher Thomason's office (in the old Market Street plant where the defunct Journal used to be published...
...loaf like oafs, to nod like clods seemed the best idea to 40 students at Asbury Park High School, N. J. They were so lazy they would not even bother to be bad. Irked immeasurably by Asbury Park's 40 sluggards, Superintendent of Schools Amos E. Kraybill announced last week he would expel them. "They are wasting their time," he cried, "and their teachers' time and the taxpayers' money." Out they would go, he said, legally or illegally. The Board of Education backed Superintendent Kraybill. But soon Superintendent Kraybill changed his mind. He reprieved the 40 laggards...