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...baseball diamond. All over the South, fields "' were crawling with such players. From every cranny of the U. S., they had come, with suitcases of leather, of wicker and with duffle bags; some of them as unprepossessing as the dismal fellow just described, others; indeed, far worse; many brisk, dapper veterans who scorned the scrofulous looks of such unseasoned players and shouted harsh commands at them. They were the company of men?numbering over 500?who play baseball in the American and National Leagues...
Thousands of dapper collegians, throwing away their cigaret butts, entered a Manhattan Armory to watch the annual indoor meet of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America. At midnight they emerged, hastily relighted their cigarets, having seen seven records, including two world mark's, lowered, having seen the athletes of Georgetown University pile up 37 points against 24 1/4 for Harvard, 221/2 for Pennsylvania, while 19 other famed institutions straggled after...
...Steel Corporation, in capitalization and stockholders and employing nearly the same number of workers. Its' assets are over two billion dollars. It serves 16,000,000 telephone subscribers. Mr. Gifford is one of the youngest men ever picked to head any great utility. He succeeds dapper Harry B. Thayer, President since 1919, who will become Chairman of the Board of Directors-an office specially created...
...mention of that composite, non-existent creature--the college man--one never thinks of furrowed brow or snow white locks. A dapper youth with ruddy face and varnished hair, in some non-chalant pose upon a Hart, Schaffner--& Marx background, is the popular conception of this mystical creature. The reading public will find its ideal rudely shattered by an article in December "Sribner's" called "A Freshman Again at Sixty...
Jean Patou, dapper couturier now visiting the U. S., was lunched by the Advertising Club of Manhattan. Said he: "The purpose of my present trip is to study advertising methods in the U.S., for they are the best in the world. I will take back with me to Paris an American advertising manager for my firm." He was induced to speak on the subject of clothes. Glancing down at his own furnishings, he stipulated that to be truly "soigne" a man should have 80 suits, "Oh, but at least 80!" said...