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...discusses his freshman team. Bruce Thurmond led all qualifiers, both varsity and freshmen, with a 74 posted last Friday. Ted Cooney, a baseball player, shot a 76, but will only be available for the Yale match. Other outstanding Yardlings are John Parsons, Pete Malkin, Jim Jones, John Walsh, Mayer Hecht, and Dave Strasslen...
...morning Friday, the crowd at Zlotnick the Furrier's was so thick that a policeman was called. He ended up buying his wife a bargain fur coat ($39). At Hecht's, one of the biggest downtown department stores, an estimated 8,000 bargain hunters crammed in during the first 15 minutes after opening, driving the buyer in the kitchen furniture department right up on top of a dinette table...
...first quarter of the century, Bodenheim, along with men like Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound and Edgar Lee Masters, spawned Chicago's lusty artistic revolt. Harriet Monroe's Poetry and Margaret Anderson's Little Review fought for the privilege of introducing his eccentric verse. Teamed with Ben Hecht, he provided his share of the scandal and uproar that lit up the city...
...helped Hecht to found the Chicago Literary Times, an irreverent journal that described Chicago as "the jazz baby-the reeking, cinder-ridden, joyous Baptist stronghold . . . the chewing-gum center of the world, the bleating, slant-headed rendezvous of half-witted newspapers, sociopaths and pants makers." He headed east to Greenwich Village in the 1920s...
When young Publisher George Hecht was ready to launch Children, the Magazine for Parents in 1926 (the title was shaved to the Parents' Magazine three years later), he offered her the editorship. She soon found out that "editing" meant rewriting into readable form the pedantic prose of the medical and child-guidance experts who were and still are Parents' important contributors. She crusaded for better pay for teachers, school lunches, better health examinations for children, more thorough care and training for mothers...