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Wind & String instruments in Chicago last week included a $1,000 accordion, a six-foot "bassoguitar" and cellos equipped with loudspeaker horns. Oldest & biggest band instrument maker is 62-year-old C. G. Conn, Ltd., which reports business currently running 35% ahead of a year ago, has 1,000 men at work in its Elkhart, Ind. plant. As with other makers in the same line, the saxophone is still Conn's biggest seller. Also in Elkhart is big Martin Band Instrument Co., whose founder walked there after being burned out in the Chicago fire...
...title automatically carried with it a place on the U. S. Olympic boxing team, 19,000 fight fans paid $33,000 to see these fisticuffs. Though they witnessed no knockouts, they received their money's worth, watching: ¶ The 118-lb. championship match which Jackie Wilson, a six-foot Negro bootblack won simply because his pint-sized opponent could not reach his face. ¶ The 147-lb. title bout which Negro Howell King won despite the unholy booing of partisan spectators who thought he had overcome Chicago's own Chester Rutecki by low punches...
...deliver an address on "The United States of America" at a St. Patrick's Day dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was jovial and easy with reporters in his room at the Copley-Plaza last night. Minus coat, tie and collar, his six-foot bulk draped over the side of an armchair, he parried press questions and waxed very optimistic about Democratic chances next fall...
Bright as the sun at noon gleamed the monocle in the eye of strapping six-foot General Rudolfo Graziani, commander-in-chief of the Italian forces in Somaliland, last week. At last things were coming...
...high jump Bob Hall will probably be outjumped by the time the field has gone far beyond the six-foot mark. He will have to meet such acknowledged champions as Al Threadgill, Spitz, and Johnson, all of whom are good for a six-six jump nearly any evening. A fourth classy jumper is Osborne, who was a champion in years gone by and who can still get quite a way from the ground...