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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were some 5,000 more delegates scheduled to perform before the Congress adjourns April 19. Hopeful of witnessing a perfect game, or at least seeing some fancy pin-toppling, 5,000 Chicagoans one night last week braved an April blizzard to watch the kegling of the local Birk Brothers (Superb Beer) quintet, which had won almost every tournament in the Midwest this year. Birk Brothers had won the A.B.C. title once-in 1917, with the same lead-off man, Policeman George Geiser, and the same anchor man, Lawyer Jules Lellinger, both of whom have been bowling for Superb Beer...
Last week, in Chicago's vast Coliseum, the American Bowling Congress was rolling into the sixth week of its 1938 session -to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling champions. The local "booster" teams had already accomplished their chore of breaking in the brand-new, slippery alleys, which Grade A bowlers dislike. Some 19,000 approved A.B.C. "keglers,"* from every State in the U. S., had bowled their required three games (in each event entered), had posted their scores and gone home. No one had bowled a perfect game.† No team had come within...
...canny Conductor Koussevitzky between the First Symphony of Beethoven and the First Symphony of Sibelius, Composer Piston's magnum opus drew as many bravos as if it were the real meat in the sandwich. Though part of this enthusiasm may have come from a desire to see local Harvard Professor Piston make good, solemn critics were agreed that his symphony was one of the most individual and stirring works of its kind by a U. S. composer. Praised were its skillful instrumentation and the rugged climax of its final movement. Noted also was an emotional juiciness hitherto lacking...
...fishermen have flocked to brooks around the Great Lakes, have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town its first smelt jamboree in 1935. Scooping smelt from streams has never concerned him as much as scooping up tourists. Wryly he says...
...officers. Nevertheless, the old taboos die hard. Last week produced an interesting anomaly in the record of modern public health education: a four-page spread of text and pictures of how babies are born. Although it had been approved by the U. S. Post Office, it was banned by local law officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and some 60 other communities. No copies were permitted to cross the Canadian border. The birth pictures appeared in the April 11 issue of 17-month-old LIFE...