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Explaining his success to members of New York's Advertising Club, Rudy Vallee told how he keeps his bandsmen up to scratch. Said he: "I say to my men sometimes, I say, 'What are you, a bunch of bricklayers?' I say that merely to stimulate them, although I am known as a hard, driving leader...
...married, and supported by some other man afterward. When they cut loose from the husband, why not let them go back to their families? Or get out, if their poor old fathers can no longer afford to keep them in the manner to which they are accustomed, and scratch for a living? There is not one scintilla of reasonable argument dictating that a divorced man should support some woman he is no longer living with. Only sentimentality and maudlin legal precedent are responsible for this unnatural, stupid state of affairs. Turn the parasites out to root for themselves...
...long seen eye to eye on most international issues, President Roosevelt and Minister Jung got on famously. President Roosevelt's principal objective prior to the June 12 opening of the conference in London is an all-round tariff truce so that all nations will start from the present scratch. Minister Jung gladly embraced this proposal. The Italian envoy argued that military disarmament must go hand in hand with economic disarmament. To this President Roosevelt heartily assented. They also agreed that "a fixed measure of exchange values must be re-established in the world and we believe that this measure...
...difficulty with the Varsity seemed to be lack of coordination in the infield, although it was admittedly an off day for the team. In the fifth, scratch hits by the visiting nine and two mistakes in judgment by Loughlin filled the bases; weak hits and infield errors put five tallies for the Blue on the board before the inning was over. A legitimate three bagger in the next frame brought home two Columbia men to make...
Three Freshmen took first places in the first part of the meet, and G. H. Bullwinkle 1L, former N. Y. U. track star, won a remarkable race in the mile run, finishing in 4 minutes, 24 4-5 seconds. Bullwinkle started at scratch and pulled up to second place at the three-quarter mark, trailing Foote, who had received a 25-yard handicap, by 10 yards. As they bore down on the finish line, Bullwinkle staged a final spurt, and finished a bare two feet ahead of Foote...