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...great thing. I envy every one of you. You're lucky, that's what, you are, lucky. Why I went to work when I was thirteen. I pounded the piano at cheap dives on Coney Island, and say, did you know I pounded the piano one place and Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter...
...blackamoor, Jesse Owens, with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster's services...
Trick of the Yean Last year's outstanding audience-catcher was the Bowes amateur hour, acquired by Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from a relatively small station to follow in the footsteps of Comedian Eddie Cantor as nation-wide salesman for Chase & Sanborn's coffee. This season's most unusual big program may be Chase & Sanborn's "Good Will Court" in which downhearted folk step up to a microphone, tell their personal difficulties to municipal judges who pass out good advice. Appeal of this program, which shrewd J. Walter Thompson begins...
Last week Olympic track & field stars, including Jesse Owens who was considering a $40,000 vaudeville offer from Comedian Eddie Cantor, had scattered to compete in exhibition meets at London and elsewhere. Meanwhile, at Berlin, swimming was the plat du jour...
Sidney R. Ballou '39, Seymour Bunshaft '39, Eli Cantor 1L, N. James Dain '39, Russell B. Edmond '39, A. Gorman Hills '37, A. Jan P. LaRue '39, Laurence S. Levy '39, Roger W. Loewl '39, Edward O. Miller '37, Guy E. Moulton 1G, Nilakanta S. Sastry 2G.B., and Royal S. Schaaf...