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...twelve-year career, crumpled to the canvas to stay. Most notable fact about Champion Armstrong, who was able to finish high school by setting up pins in a St. Louis bowling alley and developed his sturdy legs by training for one of C. C. Pyle's "bunion derbies," is that he belongs to Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Singer Jolson whose great heart is a Broadway legend, bought his contract last year for $6,000 from a gun-toting promoter named Wirt ("One Shot") Ross, turned him over to be managed by his friend Eddie Meade...
Last week the Securities & Exchange Commission trampled heavily on a most acute business bunion by publishing a list of high-salaried men of business. The salaries had been filed with the request that they be considered confidential, but SEC rated them as matters of public interest and therefore not to be concealed. Date of publication coincided with the Congress of American Industry (see p. 67) meeting in Manhattan; featured firm was General Motors whose President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was keynoter of the industrialists' session. Top salaries at Bethlehem Steel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Corn Products. 86 other...
...matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked, but the jaded cushion was anctuary. And the Vagabond answered a fool who wrote "Wouldst thou eat thy cake and have it?"--with...
Ballyhoo. For the first time a musicomedy has been based on the somewhat amusing Bunion Derbies (1928 and 1929) of Promoter C. C. Pyle. In Ballyhoo the promoter of the transcontinental footrace is Q. Q. Quale (William Claude Duganfield, better known as W. C. Fields). Funnyman Fields exhibits a rich form of comedy which appeals freshly because his foibles and frustrations are the sort that take place in life, never in the theatre. As may be expected...
...fast time of 2 hr. 18 min. 40 sec., 4 min. 50 sec. ahead of the U. S. team of Joie Ray and Johnny Salo. Marathon followers took due note of the victory, recalling that small, wiry Gavuzzi had run two years ago in C. C. Pyle's Bunion Derby and had done well enough...