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Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
...commissions were created not merely to find facts but to formulate standards and impose duties which may go so far as to destroy a man's livelihood. Whatever jurists may say, to businessmen the imposition of duties is tantamount to adjudication of rights, while the writing or rules is legislation to all practical purposes. At the very least these functions are more than fact-finding...
...make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing returned to the days before the present yachting craze, back to the sea and wind and men who owe their livelihood to them. The sight of Ben Pine and Angus Walters behind those two wheels is a fine one; and the world will be missing something when the influx of beam trawlers, Diesels and the hustle and bustle of today make it no more than a memory...
Boss of all these jobs and thus of the town's livelihood is sleek, youngish Village Clerk Frank Indihar, who also has an insurance business. His brother, Anthony, is deputy village clerk and president of the Board of Education. Last week Minnesotans heard of strange doings in Gilbert...
...fairly rapid succession, so did his 3-year-old daughter, Ingeborg; an aunt, Suzanne Loewenstein; and the family seamstress, Anna Kittenberger. In each case Mrs. Martha Marek was in close attendance. Last week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood. For it was she who had sliced off her husband's leg, she who had killed daughter, aunt and seamstress-all to collect insurance. Excoriated as a "devil in petticoats," a "human cobra," Frau Marek was sentenced to death...