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...Which set Colyumist Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A.") to probing the theory of limits in his Conning Tower: "You get $100 a week and get a 50% cut. . . . Then things get better and you get a 50% rise: $75 a week. They get bad and you get a 50% cut: $37.50 a week. They improve and you get a 50% rise: you get $56.25. ... So in an infinite number of years you'll be getting $50 a week again...
...appear the names of prominent Orientals, and occasionally a Negro's, San Francisco's most important society colyumist is Ethel Whitmire of the Hearst Examiner. She is related to Publisher Hearst, was his mother's constant companion for years. On the ChronicL- Mildred Brown is assisted by Mrs. Oscar Sutro Jr. of the sugar-&-mining Sutros. Nearest to a dictator is Agnes Duff Fenwick of the Scripps-Howard News, divorced wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo...
...Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, whose employer has large realty holdings in Los Angeles & vicinity, deprecated the disaster thus: "A succession of comparatively mild earthquake shocks . . . damaged certain buildings, insecurely built. . . . Earthquakes still arouse superstitious fear, as the appearance of comets used to do. This one will be much exaggerated in other parts of the country, particularly where the rapid growth of Southern California has aroused jealousy...
...Atlanta last week where the 13 teams in the new Southeastern Conference played their first tournament. Mississippi State, a dark horse in the upper half of the draw, got to the last round but the final was so one-sided-46 to 27 for Kentucky-that Ralph McGill, sport colyumist for the Atlanta Constitution, put all five Kentucky basketballers on his Conference team. Less enthusiastic observers agreed on two- Ellis Johnson, stocky, cat-footed guard, who fed the ball to Kentucky's 6 ft. 3½ in. forward, Forrest ("Aggie") Sale...
...easy and natural to wonder why, if all these things were true, the directors of National City had permitted Charles Edwin Mitchell to continue as their chief executive for the past three years. Colyumist Heywood Broun sounded more than usual like a popular spokesman when he wrote: "In addition to reform we should have resignations...