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...lost his first job as a bus boy at Manhattan's Hotel Astor because he broke too many dishes. The McAlpin fired him for reporting to duty in one white shoe and one yellow one. The Ritz suspended him for dropping an ambassador's breakfast tray. Only after he had served in the U.S. Army in World War I (he was an attendant at a Government insane asylum), did he begin to work steadily-first in the banquet department at the Ritz, and later as a writer and illustrator of such bestsellers as Hotel Splendide and Life Class...
...pound class-McAlpin pinned Kozol (H) with a reverse body press and half nelson at 8:26; 128-pound class-Poor (P) decisioned Smith (H), 3-2; 136-pound class--Sellers (P) decisioned Abboud class--Sellers (P) decisioned Abbound (H), 10-2; 145-pound class--King (H) decisioned Orser (P. 3-2; 155-pound class--Randall (P) pinned Connors (H) with a reverse head hold and body press at 6:48; 165-pound class--Longaker (P) decisioned Thompson (H). 6-1; 175-pound class--Priolean (P) pinned Claflin (H) with a front grapevine at 8:54; heavyweight class--Houston...
...visitors' strength lies, mainly in the lightweight brackets. Dave McAlpin, for instance, who faces Joe Kozol at 121, has pinned in his last two outings...
Where were the 5,000 steaks, the 2,500 lamb chops, the 2,500 Ibs. of ham that were supposed to arrive with the U.S. team? The team's special chef (borrowed from Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel) didn't know. Back in the kitchen the cooks spoke five languages, and he couldn't make him self understood in any of them...
Virginia-born Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early took responsibility for McAlpin's admission, said his status as correspondent had satisfied White House requirements. At week's end the bypassed Galleries' committee and the Correspondents' Association had said nothing, done nothing...