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...long time. But everyone remembers, if reluctantly, the baseball scandal of 1919, when certain players of the Chicago "Black Sox" were found with big wads of money under their pillows which a gambler had paid them to "throw" the World's Series. The gambler is now a respected Realtor, but those players ? athletes, as fast and heady as ever spit on a bat ? were ousted from organized baseball. One of them was Buck Weaver, a third-baseman; another" was first-bagger Chick Gandil. They stepped behind the curtain that hid Hal Chase, perhaps the most graceful ballplayer that...
...Vincent C. Pepe, Manhattan realtor, recently called upon the master of Italy. Good Democrat, Mr. Pepe carried with him an autographed photograph and a letter of greeting from Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York. The Italian Premier looked upon the likeness and asserted: "He looks like a Roman, and he must be a man with a punch." Straightway Mussolini autographed one of his own photographs, wrote a letter in reply, and gave them to Mr. Pepe to take back to that man who "looks like a Roman...
...Howard Konkle, was stricken with lockjaw. "If he lives," prayed Realtor Konkle, "I will work for the rest of my life to make money for the missionaries." The youth survived.* Last week his father announced that he will build a 5,500-room hotel which will tower 800† feet above Manhattan's street level. Ten % of the profits derived from this remarkable edifice will go to missionary work...
...Florida realtor followed Bryan's motor in another bungalow on wheels, placarded : "Ask us about Tampa ! Ask us ! Ask us!" Countered Mr. Bryan, himself a Miami, Fla., realtor: "You don't need to ask us about Miami...
...Phelps was not attracted. It may have been the climate that did not appeal to him. It may have been the people. It may have been Realtor Bryan's dismally backward, widely advertised views on education. In any case, Dr. Phelps refused. Said he: "I should be very much tempted by this offer, which I regard as a great honor, if I had not made up my mind to live and die at Yale...