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...four times as many trainers, second trainers, grooms and stable boys. Compared to thoroughbred racing, the economics of harness racing are small-scale. Greyhound, outstanding harness racer of the year, has earned $27,000, while Discovery has been earning $64,000. Guy McKinney, trotting's biggest money win ner for a single season, won $60,000 in 1926, compared to Gallant Fox's $308.000 in 1930. At the Fasig-Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held each autumn in New York City, prices average about one half those at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga...
...church news as his stock-in-trade, the religious editor must cut his thoughts to a consistent pattern. And of all denominations the one whose journalists are the most orthodox is the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Its magazines are: The Presbyterian (conservative weekly), The Presbyterian Ban ner (middle-of-the-road weekly), Christianity Today (arch-Fundamentalist monthly) and The Presbyterian Advance. The last, a journal founded 24 years ago, has, like many another church paper, accumulated a handsome deficit-$101,044. Last week it became known The Presbyterian Advance would cease publishing this month. Undeterred...
Author John O'Hara, 29, is a rolling stone who has travelled from his hometown Pottsville, Pa. Journal to the Paramount studios in Hollywood. He has contributed stories to The New Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...
...last summer, he won the New Hampshire State championship. Last week his devotion to the game brought its high reward when he was nominated for the presidency of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association with election in February a foregone conclusion. The selection of Mr. Hall, now a part ner in the Wall Street firm of Callaway, Fish & Co., was applauded by many a tennist not only because he is an active tournament player, but because he achieved high rank in his day against practical difficulties. In all his career he took only two weeks vacation each year, made...
...Wood flounders. Tenor George Meader, sprightlier than ever, seems to have forgotten that he was once good enough to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. The Pursuit of Happiness (by Alan Child & Isabelle Loudon; Laurence Rivers, producer). The real names of Alan Child and Isabelle Loudon are Lawrence Lang-ner, of the Theatre Guild, and his wife Armina. The real name of Laurence Rivers is Rowland Stebbins, producer of The Green Pastures. The real purpose of The Pursuit of Happiness is to capitalize the old Colonial custom called bundling. As practiced by pretty Prudence Kirkland (Peggy Conklin) at Westville, Conn...