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...players usually manage to recall squidging techniques from their childhood days. But the squop shot is entirely new to them, and on the tour the usual death knell to a strong U.S. squidging attack was the glad British cry, "Well squopped!" The English winkers - Freeman. 23, Philip Moore, 21, David Willis, 23, and Eliza beth King, 22 - found most U.S. opposition easy, but the easiest was the team of New York Giants, including Offensive Tackle Roosevelt Brown and Halfback Bob Gaiters. The match was defaulted by the Giants. "We apparently were too frightening in our warmup." said Free man. "Brown...
...Newport, R.I.-the golden day when it took some 30 servants to run a summer "cottage," when the Sunday lunch table was set for 250 as a matter of course, and creeping socialism was represented by the 16th Amendment, empowering the Government to levy an income tax. Another knell tolled for those high and far-off times last week as the auctioneer's hammer fell on the contents of The Elms, one of the last of the great houses that were still homes-until the death a year ago of Miss Julia Berwind, at approximately...
...This is the death knell of the hosiery business," said President Gordon Hanes of Hanes Hosiery Mills Co.. as he announced his company's new "Sheerloc" stocking at a luncheon of fashion editors...
...Death Knell. The sophistication of appeals to the Negro market is increasing, but still leaves much to be desired. Says Frank Seymour, general manager of Detroit's Negro radio station WCHB: "Too many advertisers have failed to grasp a simple point: ask the Negro for his business with courtesy and respect. Don't talk down to him and cut out the Amos 'n' Andy bit." Like many Negro marketing experts, however, Seymour believes that the progress that U.S. Negroes are making toward economic and social equality will eventually make special appeals unnecessary. He predicts that within...
...money, has no particular plans for spending it. But. apparently, other citizens of Wink do; of the first eleven property owners who sold to McBee, three are making plans to move away. For that reason the project that was supposed to have saved Wink may sound its eventual death knell. Says one merchant: "A lot of people would have moved out a long time ago. only they didn't have any way to get the money to go." Says Wink Bulletin Editor Melvin Dow: "I'm just afraid we're going to end up with a well...