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Back last week from a Y. M. C. A. meeting in Indianapolis sped harried President Mordecai Johnson, persuaded the strikers to call a truce while he considered their demands: 1) better football equipment, 2) jobs for the team payable in board, 3) a football training table and dietitian, 4) an experienced full-time coach, 5) a team physician and trainer. Said a football spokesman, called upon to explain the Virginia Union desertion: "We were too hungry to get in there and battle those big country boys full of ham and kale. . . . Now this Lincoln team, they got a training table...
...Dietitian...
...suspension, he bought two 16-cylinder Cadillacs, soon lacked money to run them. In Reno, he met and married a Dorothy Dunbar with whom he has since quarreled and made up seven times. When he left Reno for New York, he had with him a chauffeur, a valet, a dietitian and a present from Dorothy Dunbar, Emily Post's Book of Etiquette, which he read when he was supposed to be doing roadwork. Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled...
Governor Ruby Laffoon made a Kentucky Colonel of Mae West, professional voluptuary.* In the same batch he made a Colonel of Miss Betsy Helburn, graduate of the University of Kentucky, dietitian of The Bronx's Lebanon Hospital. Said Colonel West in Hollywood: "I guess he wants me to help him keep his troops under control. When do I get my uniform...
...What do we get for all that money? We get a huge array of expensive buildings, a huge horde of expensive quacks, an immeasurable ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive...