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...doing until I'm through." Rubloff, 39, quit grade school to shine shoes and peddle newspapers for a living, got into real estate in 1919 as an office boy. His only departure from the Alger script was in the lush '20s: "I made plenty of dough but I spent it-while the other boys were losing theirs in the stockmarket." When he went into business for himself in 1930 he didn't have a dime. He rented a $45-a-month office, got $1,500 worth of credit from a sign-painting company, talked himself into managing...
Twenty-odd years as a playwright have lined George S. Kaufman's purse well enough for him to take a flyer in the producing game, and the vehicle he has picked to lay his name and dough behind is up for inspection at the Plymouth these days. When we looked in, it was doing a fair job of rolling them in the aisles, although more than a little primping was indicated before Mr. Kaufman ventures to move his baby to Manhattan for the season, or part...
...young Conn was cocky; he insisted on playing the big chips this year. Next year, he figured, he might be in the Navy. Besides, he needed the dough. His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner...
...Elis led with two competitions to go 59 1/2 to 57 1/2, after Harvard had pulled up mightily in the later events. The broad, next on the program, set Harvard into the lead when Dave Ives leaped 23 feet 1/8 inches and sprinter Dough Pirnie raised his meet total to 13 markers with a second. The Crimson then led 65 1/5 to 60 1/2 and needed a second in the final event...
Bright spots for the Crimson were provided by Dough Pirnie's record-breaking 300-yard run and the high hurdle event. Pirnie's time was 31.7 seconds, a new track mark, and Captain Don Donahue, Roger Schafer, and Don MacKinnon finished one-two-three in the only hurdle race...