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Notes between the notes: This week's collection of facts and rumors assumes such proportions that we have to stack it up at the head of things. No. 1 is that the Goodman brother act has ceased. Since the formation of the present band, brother Harry has been playing bass and brother Irving has been doing trumpet work on and off--mostly off. Now definite word arrives that Harry is leaving to devote full time to his Pick-A-Rib joint on 52nd Street in New York, while brother Irving is just leaving. This is not to be considered...
...executive council, which undoubtedly had a hand in Mr. Green's selections, did not at first stack its peace committee so obviously against peace. Originally chosen to serve with Messrs. Woll and Bates was Teamster Dan Tobin, one of the few Federation councilmen and vice presidents who would not insist on dismembering C. I. 0. before making peace with it. As one of Franklin Roosevelt's few supporters on the council, Dan Tobin last year roundly berated his colleagues for shelving a peace message from the President to A. F. of L.'s 58th convention (TIME...
...evening of Nov. 17, 1891 a sharp-eyed Pole with an incredible stack of red-gold hair walked onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. He bowed suavely, sat down at the piano and struck the opening chords of Saint-Saens' G Minor Piano Concerto. Leading the attendant orchestra was Manhattan's cool, deliberate Walter Damrosch, then a young...
...busboy, Dillard Borden, 17, charged Vallee had hit him on the arm last Saturday night when he accidentally had brushed a stack of empty trays against the orchestra leader's back...
...HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 21--Joseph William Stack Jr. of East Lansing, Michigan, was elected captain of next year's Yale football team. Stack, 22-year-old Varsity center during the past campaign, was the captain of the Yale Freshman eleven two years ago. Stack follows in the footsteps of Bill Platt of Rye, New York, who led the team this fall...