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...champion is blonde, naïve and nonchalant. Unlike petite Audrey Peppe, who at 6 learned the rudiments of figure skating under the tutelage of her famed aunt, Joan Tozzer is the only figure skater in her family. She learned her figures from Boston's Willie Frick, tutor of Maribel Vinson. Once a year, on Christmas Day, Joan Tozzer goes skating at the Boston Arena with her father, who cannot so much...
Then the major-league overlords who had been bartering at the minor-league conclave moved on to Chicago last week for the major-league meetings. The National League promptly proceeded to make no news by re-electing President Ford Frick for three years at $27,000 per year. To the meetings of the overlords went U. S. baseball manufacturers to discuss balls of varying degrees of deadness, which had been tried out last season. The National League, which thought the American League was bound to follow its choice, forthwith voted to adopt the No. 4 ball, one degree deader than...
Successor to Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick as overlord of the feudal financial system of the unique U. S. city of Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon was an officer or director of 160 corporations and worth no one knew how much more than $500,000,000 in 1921 when Harry M. Daugherty is said to have suggested to Warren Gamaliel Harding that he would make a good Secretary of the Treasury. President-elect Harding answered: "I never heard of him," and in so doing expressed not only his own ignorance but that of the U. S. public...
Last week they found they were wrong. Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick came out with a decree ordering all Germans to register themselves as: 1) members of a Church (Catholics, Protestants, Old Catholics); 2) believers in God; 3) nonbelievers, or those with no religion...
...Minister Frick at once hustled Actress Riefenstahl from the room. When she returned to her apartment she found a detail of Brownshirts already at the door. All her furniture was already piled in a waiting truck. Obviously the whole thing had been staged. Half prostrate, Leni Riefenstahl was hustled to a quiet nearby hotel. What has since become of her, Paris-Soir did not venture...