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...gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...
...opening performance Satirist Cohan irked the authors, annoyed Tunesmiths Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart by balking at other verses about Liberty Leaguer Alfred E. Smith and some of his associates, substituting instead some lyrics of his own devising. "I just wouldn't sing them," said Actor Cohan, who is no less famed for his loyalty than for his wide talent, "because they were about personal friends of mine." Actor Cohan's extempore lyrics were not repeated. Co-Author Kaufman pooh-poohed rumors of backstage discord over the incident. Said he smoothly, "Everything is smooth and lovely...
...meeting of the Philadelphia Regional Safety Conference, Liberty Leaguer Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., declared his conviction that traffic-regulating signs are dangerous because they tend to confuse drivers' minds. Publisher David Stern's pink Philadelphia Record editorialized: "The next time Mr. du Pont sponsors a political organization that is opposed to government regulation of the power industry, or the stock market, or the monetary system, remember that Mr. du Pont also is opposed to traffic lights...
...Union City, Tenn. a gaunt man staggered into an all-night café to get a bowl of chili, was jailed for drunkenness. Bailed out next afternoon he was found to be Methodist William Gilbert Gaston, field secretary of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Leaguer Gaston objected that he had been framed by Wets, protested: "I would rather be dead than have such a thing occur." Militant Methodist Bishop Horace Mellard Dubose, the Tennessee League's president, regretfully proclaimed : "There is nothing we can do but sever him from the League. . . . The terrible curse of liquor...
Merely to have been in 1,800 baseball games in succession is twice as much as any current big leaguer has been able to accomplish but what is far more remarkable in Gehrig's case is what he has done in them. In eleven years he has never had a season's batting average of less than .300. He has led his league in batting once, in home runs three times, in batting in runs five times. He has hit three home runs in one game three times and once he hit four. Last week, for the fourth...