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...Ridgway. -ED. Artful Armenian Sirs: While browsing among the pages of the May 18 issue of TIME ... to which I am a subscriber at the Compton (Calif.) junior college, I couldn't avoid running across the somewhat handsome faces of several robust blubbering behemoths of the grunt and groan industry appearing under the box-caption, Sport. The reason for my writing is Harry (Arteen) Ekizian, better known to fight fanatics as AH Baba, the Terrible Turk. Because...
Eight new champions were created in the University wrestling bouts yesterday afternoon at the Indoor Athletic Building when the groan and grunt finals for 1936 were...
...least in celluloid whimsy universities are still being run on rhythm, and Joe College is still at large. "Freshman Love" is the latest exposition of the rollicking, carefree, hilarious whirl that is the lot of the American scholar. Granted that the healthy reaction toward that title is a groan. No attempt will be made here to induce anyone to look at this picture, but the thing is not quite so bad as the foregoing classification implies...
...make up one quarter and tobacco taxes almost an equal share); $160,000,000 from minor sources; and $1,943,000,000 from income taxes. This income tax yield is 77% greater than the income taxes collected in the fiscal year which closed last June. Lest the public should groan at paying so much in taxes the President pointed out that a large part of the increase was expected not from higher rates but from increases in the incomes subject to tax: "Only about $222,000,000 will be collected in 1937 as a result of new schedules...
After the War, when the famed "Masked Marvel" (Mort Henderson) was defeated by Strangler Lewis, wrestling became comparatively unprofitable. Promoter Curley restored the sport to favor in 1929 by the simple device of having his performers shriek, groan, wave their arms, grimace and plunge out of the ring, instead of squirming calmly on the floor as is the practice of wrestlers who are solely occupied with winning...