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...opener, held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, Buck Newsom was selected as the starting pitcher against Paul Derringer. Derringer is probably the smartest pitcher in baseball. But Buck Newsom, also known as Old Bo-Bo and The Old Showboat, was not alarmed. A cocky, 32-year-old righthander who had roamed the major leagues for ten years but had never wound up on a pennant-winning team, Newsom had told the baseball world before the season started that he would pitch Detroit into winning this year's American League pennant...
...Yussel the Muscle" was Joe Jacobs, no kin to Mike. He was not only the most colorful but the smartest manager in the prizefight business. Son of an immigrant Jewish tailor who settled in Manhattan's hurly-burly Hell's Kitchen, puny little Yussel Jacobs had to live by his wits to defend himself against his tough Irish neighbors. By the time he was 16. he commanded so much respect that he managed two neighborhood pugs. Dave and Willie Astey...
...keep tightly taped up in cans the reels of Queen of Destiny (Victorian impersonation No. 3). Next step was to find a gay, frothy, fluffy musical, which would take Cinemactress Neagle right back where she started, would restore to musicomedy one of its prettiest faces and two of its smartest dancing legs, give Queen Victoria's double a chance to dance, sing, flirt, wear billowy dresses, publicly demonstrate that she is not a day over...
...wrong--there's nothing wrong with Calloway--soft spoken and shrewd--he's one of the smartest showmen around. Staying up on the top as an ace attraction for years is no small job--and he's still doing it. And don't let any of this stuff about Cab being king of the tea (marihuanja) fiends fool you. He wouldn't still be going if he consumed the amount of dope he was reputed to. This whackiness legend is strictly for the customers...
...movie companies, stores), moved into the aircraft business -the field in which Wife No. 2 is interested. Friends of the Curtiss-Wright management offered to raise a pool to defend the company against Odlum's raid. Guy Vaughan, president of Curtiss, cooled them off. He told them the smartest thing he had ever done was to get his friend Floyd Odlum on the Curtiss-Wright board...