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...records last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons, no subscription drives in connection with it. By last week, the Los Angeles Times, Buffalo Courier-Express, Portland (Ore.) Journal, Oakland Tribune, Philadelphia Record had signed up. In each case the Committee kept the origin of the records secret...
...minors, Manager Lazzeri will match wits with many a famed onetime major-leaguer. Among his rivals in the International League (Class AA) are three former big-league managers: Rogers Hornsby (Baltimore Orioles), Burleigh Grimes (Montreal Royals) and Steve O'Neill (Buffalo Bisons). Other famed big-leaguers now managing minor-league teams: Donie Bush (Louisville Colonels), Roger Peckinpaugh (New Orleans Pelicans), Lefty O'Doul (San Francisco Seals), Rabbit Maranville (Albany Senators), Kiki Cuyler (Chattanooga Lookouts), Blondy Ryan (Clinton, la. Giants), Goose Goslin (Trenton Senators...
...still has to correct her speech). She tried writing short stories, then drifted into social work. She disliked it ("I loathe the social workers' jargon, the way they discuss people in case loads"). So she got a job addressing envelopes in the woman's suffrage headquarters in Buffalo, and that gave her the chance she wanted. Soon she was stumping all over upper New York State. She was husky and exuberant, she needed a cause, and the pay left her something to send home. She used to get up at five or six in the morning to catch...
...This pronouncement, made in Washington by members of the administrative board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, was released last April 22. It was of a policy-making kind which the Catholic press would ordinarily frontpage. Among the few papers which featured it: the Michigan Catholic, St. Paul Wanderer, Buffalo Catholic Union and Times, Pittsburgh Catholic Observer, New York Catholic News...
...little or no institutional support in Manhattan. In the late spring of 1929 they and one or two other liberal ladies laid plans for a new museum. To head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical experience as a trustee of Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery. Mr. Goodyear knew a number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip abroad in June 1929, Mr. Goodyear shook...