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...only was the expense of digging it out terrific, but diggers hit a well which flooded the basement dressing rooms. On Feb. 10, 1936 the show went broke, rehearsals were temporarily abandoned. The backers - rich and loyal Jews like Presi dent Maurice Levin of Hearn's, President Alfred A. Strelsin of Reliance Advertising Co., Banker Felix M. Warburg, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post- had already put up $250,000, were unable or unwilling to continue bearing the full financial responsibility...
...When the skiing boom started, Union Pacific's Chair-man William Averell Harriman dispatched Count Felix Schaffgotsch, expert Austrian skier, on a 5,000 mi. trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks up to 12,000 ft. above sea level to shut off cold northern winds, snow from December to April, sun hot enough for skiing without...
Commented Dr. Rice, who estimates that 5% of New York City's population is suffering with syphilis: "We hope to cut down the spread of the disease. We may do something towards its elimination here later, but it will remain for the next generation really to make a dent here...
Edward Joseph Dent, of the University of Cambridge, Music...
...most of them the only question to be settled by a prolonged campaign is whether two anti-New Deal Democrats opposing President Roosevelt's personal friend, Senator James Francis Byrnes, can make a sufficient dent in his majority to injure the prestige of the New Deal in the country at large...