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...Olympic team which set a mile record in Paris in 1924. He and Bumpy lived with their two daughters in a remodeled farmhouse in Stamford (now rented to Lyricist Dorothy Fields). Their daughters, 15 and 14, used to play tennis and swim with their parents in summer, skate and ski with them in Vermont in the winter. Now they are both working on farms for the summer...
Queer Fish. To teach people to enjoy kinds of fish now thrown back into the sea or ground into fertilizer, the Government is publishing Wartime Fish Cookery. It contains recipes for shark steak, skate chowder, the plentiful but oily menhaden, the humble but edible alewife, the delicious ocean pout, of which Massachusetts fisheries have recently sold huge quantities. Whale meat (red but fishy) was sold in Boston during the last...
...middy blouse and pretend she is twelve in order to keep from her mother's suitor (John Boles) the fact that Mother Francis is fortyish. In the complicated course of this deception, Diana also fools a charming young man (Robert Cummings), who buys her roller skates and ice-cream sodas, tries to teach her to skate before his normal eyesight asserts itself and he realizes she is old enough to be his wife...
...raised his incentive bonus payments from 10% of net to 80%. This system is worked in conjunction with low base pay compared with going rates for the trade, so as to permit the company-in James Lincoln's words-to "skate through a tough period without going broke." Nevertheless the average worker's total pay has gone from $1,996 to $4,879 in the past decade, while the productivity per man has gone from $6,107 to $25,025. And a Lincoln welding electrode that sold for 16? a Ib. in 1929 now sells...
From the face-off, Stuckey, the Princeton captain and center, aimed a shot which put the Tigers ahead 1 to 0 when the puck was deflected off George Dreher's skate into the cords. Harvard evened the count in the second period when Marc Beebe scored on a pass from Johnny Burton...