Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plump, ruddy-faced Interim Senator Thomas More Storke (Dem.) of California is editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press. He has long been such a close friend of his neighbor, Senator-reject William Gibbs McAdoo, that California papers call him "Deputy Senator." In Washington he knew enough not to take the 20 job-hunting letters he received every day too seriously. Instead he read Jim Farley's instructive autobiography, dined with friends at the Shoreham Hotel, danced to his favorite tune- The Last Roundup. "This is just a honey-moon," he said...
...addition to his salary (for first call on his services), Jockey Longden, like most of his colleagues, receives $10 for every race he enters (up to last week he had entered 1,091 this year), $15 extra for every race he wins and 10% of the winning purse. His income this year is about $50,000. Although some earn more than many a bank president and others earn less than plumbers, all jockeys complain that they have to spend 50% of their earnings for expenses...
...Louis shoppers allergic to holiday crowds, Junior Leaguers Etta Weld and Margaret Chandler Porter last week provided what they were pleased to call a Musée De Noël. In the Hotel Jefferson they displayed a roundup of 351 articles at $5 or less, "selected impartially from St. Louis' smartest stores." Shoppers were given pencils and cards on which to note the articles and stores selling them; then orders could be telephoned...
Unfortunately, very little credit for this performance can go to the Dramatic Club. The few lines that call for acting, such as Miss Spencer's "mad Ophelia" scene, are read by women, while the men in the cast are uniformly poor, always excepting Mr. Sever and possibly Jervis B. McMechan '42. Moreover the man responsible for the revision of the play, as well as its direction and staging, is Jack Munro, a 28-year-old Canadian actor and author who boasts "a crimson past but no connection with Harvard." In spite of this outside assistance, or quite possibly because...
...other side of the picture is that Coach Eck Allen is bringing a highly promising Brown quintet to Cambridge led by the sensational Harry Platt at forward. Jack Padden, a Sophomore, will probably get the call at the other forward post over the ailing "Soup" Campbell...