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...York the oldtime slot machine which turns out grimy pieces of chewing gum at the drop of a coin is illegal as soon as it is converted into a money-paying gambling device. But the pin game is a game of skill, according to a ruling of the Department of Licenses. Last week the License Commissioner announced that some 10,000 pin game machines had been licensed at $5 a machine. Wiseacres estimated that another 25,000 machines are being operated in the city without licenses. An organization called the Skill Games Board of Trade was formed last year...
...University of California, studied in Copenhagen under Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. He is married, has two daughters. He is a neat, square, plump-faced man who likes to extemporize on the piano, make charcoal sketches. Once he smoked two packages of cigarets per day. Now he chews gum instead...
...black lace evening gown which he found in the crone's drawer. Then Broadway knew that "Apple Annie" was dead. Her real name was Helen McCarthy. But for five years, known only as Apple Annie, she stood in a little alley off Times Square, hawked apples & oranges & gum. There Sportswriter Damon Runyon passed her many a day and on one of them he had an idea. The idea became a story, Apple Annie. The story became a moving picture, Lady For A Day, a film of a bottle-loving harridan who played for 24 hours the part...
...find, upon an examination of the respective gum advertisements of TIME and Tower up to August 1934, that we have both convinced gum manufacturers of a worthwhile potential of "gum-chewers" in our respective readerships. You carried 1,144 lines and we carried 2,145 lines of gum advertising which definitely gives us the lead. So that perhaps we ought to cede you the position of the gumchewers magazine and we will take the post of the gumchewingest magazines...
...course, if you have been following the health and beauty campaigns of gum manufacturers on chewing for chin lines and cheek curves, you know that gumchewing is no longer merely a ruminative agitation of the jaws. It now has purpose, character, and style direction...