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Such changes of management did not brake the Garden's steady downward plummet in prestige and profits. Boxing, once the corporation's most flourishing sport, attracted 206,000 spectators in 1932-33. 83,000 in 1933-34. The unpopularity of gaudy Matchmaker James Joy Johnston, who developed the practice of putting his brother's fighters on his increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter...
...first lesson, which by the way takes place in the office with the bicycle set up on the stand, is a training in continued reflexes. The pupil is taught to put on the brake at the word "Stop." He (or she) is shown how to sit properly (hygienic posture it is called) and all in all everyone has a grand time...
...engineer had a record of twelve reprimands for misconduct. Its fireman had been discharged twice, arrested once. Its brakeman had been reprimanded for drunkenness. Coming into a station named Fraser, the playful engineer ran past two stop signals. A stalled train stood dead ahead. The roistering brakeman's brakes failed to brake. Result: 19 dead, 44 injured. Last week a Moscow court sentenced engineer and brakeman to be shot dead...
Also from Cambridge came another report on U. S. men & women last week. Testing automobile drivers with a reaction-timing device. M. I. T. engineers announced that women take 25% longer than men to apply the brake after a red light flashed. The men responded in .70 sec., the women...
...Mellbank Corp., which controls a group of some 20 smaller Pennsylvania banks. In the industrial wing he is a director of Aluminum Co., Gulf Oil, Koppers Co. and Carborundum Co. He has a director's vote in such minority Mellon interests as Pullman, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Westinghouse Air Brake, Harbison-Walker Refractories, Norfolk & Western. Last week he was seeking I. C. C. approval (which will probably be denied) of his recent election to the board of Pennsylvania Railroad. Only notable omission from his roster of directorships is Pittsburgh Coal Co., in which the voting Mellon is Andrew...