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...Clubfoot Moe inspired and inviolate and sensitive that night, J, of course) and wouldn't play for just because he loved Jazz (with a capital money, after all he had played on the riverboats with Fate Marable. Of course decided to get three square meals a day the payoff came when Bobby Hackett by joining Horace Heldt. That was the day when the critics fell by the dozens...
Probably no modern work of history or fiction ranks as such a thorough, lucid, conclusive payoff on war as Verdun. This it is, not through a mere presentation of the sickening personal truth of "combat" (Remarque) nor through scorn and excitement crystallized in art (Hemingway), but through a grownup, sympathetic intelligence. If Romains goes on so, he will have given the first grand perspective on war since War and Peace...
...Payoff on Month I of World War II: some plunged in Beth Steel at $go-to-$100, hedged by picking up German Government dollar bonds (which went unnoticed from $5 to $9) on chances that they might go to $25 (netting 400%) if Hitler should happen to get his peace...
...hours later Claude Elkins felt "sort of cold and sticky all over." In his hand was a telegram informing him that he was the only ticket holder of the winning combination, that he had won the whole pool of $10,772.40-largest pari-mutuel payoff in the history of U. S. horse racing...
With his income from racing tipster sheets and a national leased wire service that furnished odds and payoff prices, Moe Annenberg branched out. He began publishing Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories, Click. Three years ago he bought the respectable old Inquirer, and since then he has shown more & more reticence about his activities on the other side of the tracks. He has played the public-spirited publisher in Philadelphia by declaring the Inquirer's political independence, the honest-minded publisher by printing the news of his tax troubles on the front page...