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Rounding out the crew was a girl with a long cigarette holder who drove a third Chrysler up and down the drive in front of the pick-up truck. If the shots made yesterday appear in the shots made yesterday appear in the movie, they will be part of driving scene showing the principles rolling along Memorial Drive in the Chrysler...
Hollywood invaded the local scene briefly for the second time within a year last week as Paramount Studio cameramen, mounted in the back of a pick-up truck, cruised up and down Memorial Drive near the Houses, shooting background material for Bing Crosby's new picture, "Here Comes the Groom...
...Third Point. Next day he got his wish. With Bromwich, in fine form, setting up plays for Teammate Sedgman's smashes, the Aussies won the clinching doubles match from the U.S. pick-up pair of Schroeder and 36-year-old Gardnar Mulloy. The score...
...their friend, you know how they figure "it's tough to make an honest living." You know how they have been approached by agents of the big Boston syndicate. You know how they are being paid a certain percentage of their rent to allow a pick-up man to meet his bettors in their shops at certain times. You know how some of them clear between 10 and 15 percent of all the money bet with them, if they phone in the bets and work "on the up-and-up" with the bigger agents...
...least another dozen local business men are suspected of meeting rent payments by accepting money from bookies and pick-up men who use their places of business to contact bettors and phone in wagers...