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...mold board for plows, revolving chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that came in. First patent went to one Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for "making pot and pearl ashes." In those days a patent cost about $4. (Now it is $60 plus legal fees.) John Fitch paid $4.39 for his steamboat patent. The part-time clerk pocketed the fees...
...School of Business bestowed on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia a testimonial of special merit. Reason: 30 years ago it had taught him shorthand and typing in 30 hours. The Mayor's counter-testimonial: the day he finished his 30-hour course (cost $7.50), he got a job with Abercrombie & Fitch at $18 a week...
...fact, it was even less. But shortly thereafter, the outfit was completely reorganized and enlarged. So vast was the change that when Benny Goodman auditioned the band "sat-in" and played with them for fifteen minutes, breaking the clarinet player's reed in the process. And shortly thereafter, Fitch Band Wagon evinced considerable interest in having them on their program sometime during the year...
Notes between the notes: Stan Brown's signing the Dunster House dance November 11 comes as no surprise as he and his band are being considered for the Fitch Band Wagon . . . Victor records announce that the following Goodman records are being dropped from the Victor label to the Bluebird listings. And don't miss them, because they're all old ones that are good: "If I Could Be With You"--"Dear Old Southland"; "Japanese Sandman".--"I Know That You Know"; "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"--"Christopher Columbus"; "Madhouse"--"Get Happy"; "Can't We Be Friends"--"Swing...
Robert Donald Fitch of the State Department was at the pier in Manhattan to meet square-chinned Chief Constable Albert Canning of what is properly called the Criminal Investigation Department. He is its first chief to have risen from the ranks. C. I. D.'s Canning proceeded inconspicuously to Washington to discuss with the Secret Service plans for the safety of George VI & Queen Elizabeth on an itinerary of some 1,500 miles with many ticklish spots...