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...been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline, tossed '"Swifty" White into the street for making a nuisance of himself...
...will be no ballyhoo and no drive. Graduates will be notified by letter. Non-graduates, more likely to be "well-heeled," may be interested in the new type of professors unless they have Tory hardening of the heart and believe there is overproduction of professors in evidence and Government employ. --New York Times
Under the law of France he who butchers horsemeat can butcher no other sort of meat; French housewives obliged to serve their families "poor man's meat" are sensitive about it. In Paris alone 69,323 horses were served up last year. German horsemeat shops employ no euphemisms, no golden horse, paint over their shops such blunt signs as Wir verkaufen das beste Pferdefleisch ("We Sell the Best Horsemeat"). In Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed...
...touch ... is denied to me." Most 20th Century playgoers lean toward the big bowwow. Accordingly, they might reasonably be expected to yawn at characters whose menfolk's tights and neckwear make them look like bullfrogs about to spring, whose every silly sentence twists toward rarefied romance, and who employ three acts and much superfluous palaver in the basically simple process of going out and getting married. Nevertheless, all concerned in the dramatization do manage to supply, if not an exciting, at least a quiet, chuckly evening in the theatre. Let Freedom Ring (adapted by Albert Bein; Bein & Goldsmith, producers...
Does politically-alert TIME feel in its own heart that Publisher Frank Knox is presidentially possible [TIME, Oct. 14]? Its recital of his life's work to date reads like that of any other tycoon of the street who has learned how to make money and employ it wisely. A reader of the Chicago Daily News ever since Candidate Knox took it over, and long before. I have never known it to profess a political creed other than standpat, high-tariffed, hands-off Republicanism, the creed of the American debacle...