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...befits the beginning of a sequel, the end of the first scene found the protagonist involved in new difficulties. His final speech, a sober fireside chat appealing to the nation on behalf of his Supreme Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets...
...best seller, with unit sales (from 10? to $12 the game) likely to surpass the last great fad game, Mah-jongg (1924). In New Jersey alone, reported Lawyer Berlin, 200 Bingo operators are netting $300,000 a week, the average game drawing more than 1,000 players. Firms now flourish which go into a parish house, lodge or theatre, run a Bingo party on a percentage basis. Though the Bishop of Albany frowned upon Bingo simply because it is scandalous, his fellow bishops technically are under no obligation to do so. Catholic theologians have decided that gaming is licit provided...
...Publicity is the cheapest thing a doctor can pursue. But when it serves a purpose, you've got to do it. Make any vice look ridiculous, and it won't flourish much longer.'' So says Northwestern University's Professor Laurence Hampson Mayers, who addressed members of the American Society for the Study of Arthritis at their meeting in Manhattan last week. Publicity was not long coming his way when he waved a fat roll of typed paper at the arthritis specialists. The roll, said he, was 31 ft. long. All that yardage was needed...
...captain of the school. Lord Hugh, as was fitting, replied in Latin, but probably not 50 of the 1,100 aristocratic youths present knew what he was talking about. For many of them their knowledge of Latin begins and ends with the school motto Floreat Etona ("May Eton Flourish...
Professionals. Played informally as early as 1895, organized professional football really began to flourish in 1925, when famed C. C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle signed famed Illinois Halfback Harold ("Red") Grange to play for pay. Last year, a million people paid more than $1,000,000 to see the 54 games played by the nine teams of the National League, No. 1 organization of the game. This season professional football has two major leagues, named after baseball's. Leaders of the six teams in the American League last week were the Boston Shamrocks. In the National League, the Chicago Bears...