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...musicritic to compare with the late great James Gibbons Huneker, Philip Hale, Henry E. Krehbiel, et al. In the scramble for Mr. Oilman's job, Composer Thomson won on past performance and by agreeing with the Herald Tribune management that musicriticism should come out from under its bushel...
Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...
...Denver hangout was the Windsor Hotel, where he once turned loose a bushel of rats, closely followed by a pack of rat terriers. They swarmed from attic to wine cellar, leaving havoc in their wake. Ogilvy's best friend at the Windsor was its amiable, hard-boiled bartender, Harry Tammen, who in 1893, with a handsome, swaggering young gambler from Chicago, Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, bought the Denver Post...
...Much. Across the flat, silky wheatlands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the great combines purred last week, cutting and threshing wheat. Every grain the machines gathered was a problem. Canada's wheat economy is built on an average annual production of 350,000,000 bushels, of which the greatest part was formerly shipped to Britain. Of that Britain marketed a large amount. Blitzkrieg and the fear of helping the enemy has knocked that market out. Last year Canada had a bumper crop of over 450,000,000 bushels, of which 275,000,000 is still in elevators, unsold. This...
...much good news was, as usual, bad for prices. The forecast publication sent July wheat at Chicago under 73? a bushel, a new low since the delivery went on the Board last September. Optimists, who had helped push wheat to $1.13 in April under combined impetus of drought and war, had taken another look at the situation. The chronic U. S. wheat surplus looked even bigger and more unwanted than usual...