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...wages while other textile companies were laying people off. Employees of the Midwest's E. G. Shinner & Co. meat market chain (33 stores) made so much out of profit-sharing that they bought the company. Even when profits turn into losses, the plan pays off. Says Chairman Hugh Comer of Alabama's money-losing Avondale Mills: "Our employees know we are in the red and are really putting the pressure on to improve things...
...general too often proves a frightening deterrent to late transfer applicants into the field. Even though a special committee on occasions grants a one-year examination stay to exceptional cases, most students of history must take the generals irrespective of the date on which they transfer. The prospective late-comer, faced with the unattractive alternative of undergoing a detailed examination in history or transferring to another field, too often chooses the latter...
...Cocky Comer. Spike, surely a master, learned his boxing the hard way-on the streets of turn-of-the-century Baltimore. An only boy surrounded by five sisters, young Hamilton Murrell Webb did all the fighting for the family. He grew up with a bloody nose. By the time he was 14, he was tough enough to fight and win a four-round bout at the old Erica Athletic Club. He earned eight shiny half dollars, and from that night on he was a professional...
...cocky young Spike Webb was a comer, good enough to tangle in a nontitle Donnybrook with Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion. But before he had a chance to tackle Kilbane again, Spike was mixed up in a much bigger brawl. As coach of the 29th Division boxing team, he caught the eye of General John J. Pershing. At war's end he trained the A.E.F. boxing team for the Inter-Allied Army games in Paris. Spike has no trouble recalling the most stylish fighter on his squad: a young marine light heavyweight named Gene Tunney...
...county courthouse, handled general assignments and covered sports. His salary: $5 a week. He concentrated on sportswriting, soon moved on to other papers. While on the Atlanta Journal, he was harried by anonymous telegrams and letters from Anniston, Ala., all carrying the same message: "Cobb is a real comer . . ." Skeptically, Rice traveled to Anniston and watched a youngster named Tyrus Raymond Cobb play semipro baseball. The next day he began writing stories about the undiscovered outfielder at Anniston. As a result, Cobb was later signed by the Detroit Tigers and started on his matchless major-league career (20 years later...