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...wind and superlatives were convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James C. Petrillo of the Chicago Musicians Association was obliged to announce that there will be no Chicago Symphony next year. Messrs. Jiskra, Recoschewitz, Napolilli, Trnka, et al. prepared, as a bad press punster wrote, to disband. Conductor Frederick A. Stock, however, was reported reengaged at his usual salary, to give him time to compose...
...Seattle, one Oscar Lemdahl built a cottage, shingled it with 2,300 discarded automobile license plates. Said a punster : "Garage men for many miles about have pandered to his licentiousness...
...Cambridge winter cannot restrain the university from breaking forth into fresh excitement. The newest panic is that of red "circles". Opponents of the New Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist League will be welcomed...
...with all the usual newspaper features except financial news-instead it carried "Labor News." Across its heading it bore the legend: " Not a millionaire's property-owned by 300,000 workers." As a newspaper it " had its points." It had a columnist reputed to be the best punster in Manhattan. But its editorial policy was radical...
...work. Unless some offer themselves in the course of the year, the "Lampoon," we fear, will, to the lasting shame of all students, have to be given up. Now, every one has an occasional happy idea. Indeed, in every table group, we find one acknowledged funny man or punster. If these persons would only try a few times until they get the style of writing demanded, they would be able to produce occasional articles which would be accepted by the "Lampoon." Surely in a university of 1500 men, there is more than one man who is able and willing...