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Manager of the Rangers is silver thatched, 54-year-old Lester Patrick. Patrick has been a name known to hockey fame since the early days of the century. Trained on Montreal's corner-lot rinks, where the game was played with tin cans and tree-branches, Lester Patrick went on to star at McGill University.* In 1909, the year after the sport was first professionalized, he became the most publicized player in Canada when he got $3,000 for playing twelve games for the famed Renfrew Millionaires...
Last week the news broke on U. S. front pages that Mr. Hearst, now nearly 75 and busily engaged in putting his affairs in order, had decided to sell or otherwise dispose of at least two-thirds of all his art. Estimated value of the lot: $15,000,000. If Mr. Hearst succeeds in his disposals his estate will have to pay inheritance taxes on only $5,000,000 worth of art objects. Just when the auctioneer's hammer will begin to fall was not stated, because after three months of work Mr. Hearst's agent, Manhattan Dealer...
...Davidson, who last week rendered his 30th annual report as general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Established in 1900, the Society is still backed by a fund set up by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish philanthropist who spent millions trying to improve the lot of European Jews, to get them to emigrate from their ghettos. In 1900 there were 200 Jewish farmers in the U. S. Today, although many Americans have never seen any Jewish farmers, there are nearly 100,000, many of whom have benefited by the $7,500,000 in loans...
...Author Seabrook wags his finger: "You can find more 'parlor reds' per capita in Harvard, Smith, Vassar, Barnard . . . than you can find actual revolutionists among any foreign-language race group in America. . . ., The Melting Pot is a real thing. It boils and bubbles. It gives off a lot of steam and some scum, but what remains is a good conglomerate...
...sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife the truth. When he kisses his secretary, he tells his wife that the secretary sneaked up on him. He admits looking at other women's legs, but turns his confession into a diatribe on their...