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...Schenck took a $50,000 bundle of bills to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, dropped it on the bed and looked out the window. Other Hollywood tycoons got into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million dollars...
...after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy") to the latest blessed event in the Indian colony. Occasionally his desire for a scoop leads him into trouble, but he is graceful at retraction: "Last week we had made a mistaken on Frank Mike passed away. He is at first place, but he is life again two or three hours afterwards...
...American-flag background appeared all over the city. On them was this legend: "Congratulations on a job well done-Hart Schaffner & Marx." A few days later the London Daily Mail angrily protested that American businessmen in uniform were transacting business in Paris. But who had scored this advertising scoop for the big U.S. clothing firm no one seemed able...
Tanks . . . Bulldozers. Tanks made a stab, were wrecked by Germans who sneaked through the tunnels, popped out behind them. Bulldozers tried to scoop dirt in front of the gun openings, failed to cut their fire power. In the fantastic melee, even headquarters became confused. Once it announced the fort's capture, was flatly contradicted a few hours later by the Associated Press, which correctly reported that German resistance not only continued, but was rising in violence...
Died. Gustave Meyer, 68, self-styled "American scientific astrologer - counselor to the nation"; after suffering heart and kidney complications; in Hoboken, N.J. Bug-eyed, jumpy Meyer stargazed in purple robes edged with gold, got anadvance scoop on President McKinley's assassination, called President Harding's death one year too soon, picked Al Smith and Dempsey over Hoover and Tunney, predicted that by 1942 the U.S. would have a female President and a civil war between Capital and Labor...