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Three hot dog vendors at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds received more ($30,000 to $34,999) than Pitchers Lefty Gomez ($20,000) and Carl Hubbell ($17,500). From Hal Roach Studios fat Funnyman Oliver Hardy had received only about half as much ($85,316) as his slender colleague Stan Laurel ($156,266). Henry Ford drew no salary from Ford Motor Co., while Son Edsel's $100,376 was topped by Ford's Vice President P. E. Martin ($128,008) and General Manager Charles E. Sorensen ($115,100). Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York...
...Monthly" is what appears to be a confusion of motives in the minds of its sponsors. The aim of publishing a current review of topics interesting to Harvard men deserves a spirited rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice of intellectuality to readability in the new magazine means...
...Manhattan's Radio City, LIFE'S cameramen recorded National Broadcasting Co.'s tenth birthday with candid studio shots of such favorites as Gossip Walter Winchell, Exhibitionist Gypsy Rose Lee (with clothes on), Singer Jessica Dragonette, Funnyman Jack Benny and Maestro Rudy Vallee. In The President's Album, a feature which will be continued weekly, LIFE showed shots which Franklin Roosevelt might well paste up in his scrapbook...
...Susan Fleming, 31, onetime Follies showgirl; "around Sept. 26"; "somewhere in California or Nevada." Minus his frowzy blond wig, he said he had driven aimlessly with his brunette bride-to-be until he found a justice of the peace, went through the ceremony unrecognized. Upon telegraphing President Roosevelt congratulations, Funnyman Marx explained he had kept his marriage secret until after Nov. 3 "because I didn't want to crowd you off the front page...
...wreckage Mr. Catchings left behind him in Goldman Sachs was appalling. Market value of Goldman Sachs Trading shriveled from $500,000,000 to less than $10,000,000. Funnyman Eddie Cantor, who lost a sizable fortune in the stock, made the name of Goldman Sachs a sure-fire gag from coast to coast. Law suits received so much publicity that Wall Street pranksters used to call up Goldman Sachs, ask for the "litigation" department...