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Last week in Boston, the 280-lb. Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference...
...International model, only $20 above Allis-Chalmers' small unit. Last week, International Harvester extended its counteroffensive to combines, announced that besides its $725 six-footer, it would now build a four-footer to compete with Allis-Chalmers' $345 42-inch machine. Meanwhile, farm implementing's newest-comer, Henry Ford, stepped up tractor assemblies to 875 a week (price $585), still failed to catch up with orders...
Last week Alec Templeton Time (NBC-Red) was the up-and-comer of the new 1939 radio shows. In two months it had won some 6,000,000 listeners. Blind, brilliant Alec Templeton's charm is no secret; his musical lampoons spare nobody, from his keyboard come chuckles for all. Once he put on an accent like Music Master Walter Damrosch's, piano-lectured theme by theme on Three Little Fishies. He embroiders five-note themes tossed up by audiences until they sound like Wagner. His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part...
...elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue. In 1926 aristocratic Public Utilitarian Bernard Capen Cobb wrote to an officer of his Northern Ohio Power & Light: "Do not let this young man get away from us. . . . He is a comer and we should keep...
Captain Roswell Brayton and Penn Tuttle, who led the field together in last week's race, and Dave Simbolt, a new-comer of this season, are the best bets for the Varsity. Other Varsity starters will be: Clark, Nichols, Gardner, Wing, Childs, McLaughlin, and Oldfather...