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...discovering other Alger heroes. Worming the life stories out of some 500 men, he has splashed them reverently across the continent in his own and Hearst publications. Charles M. Schwab called him "the humanizer of Big Business." "TIME," says B. C., "would call me a tycoon's pal...
...High time for a drink," said Huey to his pal Puey, "so Ayres to Harvard, 14 to 7." He tipped his Glass...
...heartless. Early in the day, racketeers' stooges plant bundles of rags to simulate blanket rolls along 20 or more sleeping spaces in tube stations, patrol them till the evening rush. Likely prospects are then approached with a whispered "I was keeping this place for a pal of mine, lydy, but you can 'ave it-for a bob." Prices range from sixpence in crowded stations to two-and-six in deeper, cleaner stations. Average net take: two pounds a night...
...York Post urged an end to bitter feelings and words, then proceeded thus to remind John L. Lewis of his promise to resign as head of C. I. O. upon President Roosevelt's reelection: "Here's your hat, pal-and your reversible coat." Washington observers predicted 1) that with Lewis' resignation, C. I. O.-A. F. L. peace would come soon; 2) that as leader of United Mine Workers, Lewis would continue as a potent C. I. O. figure despite his resignation; 3) that able, undramatic Phil Murray would head...
...making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan." They also gang up on a torso-rolling lady of the cast with the suggestion: "When you get that wound up, set it for seven...