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...Trouble of a different sort beset Ballyhoo and its distributor American News Co. in a pending Federal suit of United Cigar Stores Co. of America charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Reason: American News Co. refused to supply United Cigar stores with copies of Ballyhoo unless they would take some of the less successful magazines also...
...formed by John T. MacGovern. co author of Carnegie Bulletin No. 23, excoriating professionalism in college football, that "the scandalous conduct of the spectators has done more to break down the best traditions of American athletics than any subsidizing . . . proselytizing. . . ." He laid the blame for over emphasis on "cigar-store sports or barber shop administrators. . . ." President Henry M. Wriston of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.. told the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges that "a vicious relationship between sports and profits has developed through the years." He advocated abolition of collegiate "conferences." "scouting," high-salaried coaches, exploitation...
...difficult for the morbid to see an execution. Last week strong police cordons blocked off the street 200 yards on either side of the Widow. Gaping butchers' boys peered over policemen's shoulders to see the tiny figure descend from a horse-drawn van. refuse the traditional cigar and glass of rum. There was a huddle round the base of the guillotine, then the knife crashed down as a church bell struck seven...
...night pairs of blinking red & green lights mark the outlines of the U. S. S. Akron. By sunlight she is a shining, fat silver cigar. In fog or clouds, Pilot Ray Fuller of American Airways said last week, she is a "grey hulk" and a "menace." Pilot Fuller was flying the mail between New Orleans and Atlanta when his ship bored into a cloud bank near Mobile, Ala. Suddenly, he said, the Akron loomed dead ahead of him. He "punched the plane into a sharp wingover at 120 m. p. h. and came out underneath the dirigible." Said...
...slipping bits of Communistic literature into their offerings. The workers struck in protest, claimed that only they could dismiss the readers since they paid them. The strike got serious when the workers went back, found the factories locked as the operators had warned they would be. Now deadlocked, the cigar industry is Tampa's biggest. Normal daily output is more than 1,000,000 cigars, the monthly payroll above...