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About the same date ex-Plunger Joseph Patrick Kennedy, on vacation from the U. S. Embassy in London, reached home. Whatever he thought privately about economic conditions, he said in his public capacity that only a war would put the market (and therefore business) down to where it was in the grim spring...
...sponsoring a share of the games of the two Boston teams, the two Philadelphia teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a host of minor leaguers-will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with 14 major-league teams (all but the Boston Bees and Red Sox) and most of the minors, playing their hearts out for its Wheaties...
...last, when Hutter was continually beating him . . . . Yale submerged Brown Wednesday. The Bruins who broke the Crimson winning streak bowed 51 to 24. Outstanding Eli times: a 2:58 medley, a 2:17.7 furlong, a 52.8 century, and of course 123.6 points for Danny Endweiss, Yale's persistently perfect plunger. The New Haven team today meets Michigan at Ann Arbor and is likely to return to Connecticut Monday a bunch of beaten Bulldogs . . . . Princeton and Navy battle it out at Annapolis tonight in the first league meet for both teams. Better pick Tigers over Goats...
Other assorted intimates are Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, Novelist Rebecca West. Best U. S. friend is Wall Street Plunger Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, who met Beaverbrook in 1930 when he sued him for libel.* Ben Smith sells the Beaver U. S. airplanes, talks to him several times a month on the transatlantic telephone and consults him on his own British publishing venture, Cavalcade, a TiMElike news magazine...
...once planted 100 pigeons in a friend's office), heavy-jowled, big-nosed Herbert got into banking in 1907 after making a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills. Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him great repute as a daring plunger. But some stockholders charged that his plunges were more profitable to Herbert than to them. (Last month the Maritime Commission listed him among those who milked the Dollar Line almost to extinction...