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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average-roughly equivalent to a batter's batting average as a test of all round efficiency-was 3.34, second in his league only to that of 37-year-old Robert Moses Grove. Last winter, during a complicated controversy in which it appeared that Feller might be declared a "free agent," rival club owners bid as high as $100,000 for his services. This spring Feller's efficiency has been, if anything, more spectacular than it was a year ago. In three appearances against the National League pennant-winning New York Giants, Feller had last week pitched a total...
...occasionally platinum. For leather she prefers Cape Levant from the backs of goats that have run wild on the Cape of Good Hope for seven years. A surprise among the priceless rarities in Miss Lahey's exhibition was the original typescript of Calvin Coolidge's autobiography, presented free and unsolicited to Mr. Morgan a few months before the author died. For this Miss Lahey found suitable a binding of baby blue French Morocco, decorated with a border of small c's in pure gold, and embossed dots...
Newest name and newest musical material on the Master list were those of Raymond Scott. This conscientious and well-schooled pianist-composer, heretofore unrecorded, began appearing on Columbia Broadcasting System's Saturday Night Swing sessions last January. Not swing musicians at all, since they are not free to improvise, the Scott Quintet does play in fox-trot tempo. What makes their music remarkable is that they play Scott's unconventional compositions, and play them with a finesse, variation and volume expected only of a 20-piece band. At present sold out is the one Scott record...
...often led to suppression or coloration of unwelcome facts. It would seem . . . reasonable prudence for an association engaged in part in supplying the public with fair and accurate factual information with respect to the contest between Labor and Capital, to see that those whose activities include that service are free from either extreme sympathy or extreme prejudice one way or the other...
...twin-engined cabin monoplane, learning to fly. Six feet tall, broad-shouldered, small-hipped, expert squash and softball player, fond of dancing, blond, brown-eyed Randolph Hearst reports for work at 7:30 a. m., eats democratically and heartily with his fellow workers at a nearby lunchroom, is free to play after...