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...Wednesday's time trial, there was no thought of breaking any records before Saturday's race, and Cornell, also with two straight losses on its record, was not expected to do much better. But the Big Red is traditionally a late-season corner. And in the last week Stork San ford brought his men along remarkably well after losing to the Crimson in the Easter Sprints...
...Stork Sanford's Big Red, besides losing to the Crimson at Princeton, have also lost to both Yale and the Tigers in the sprint in the Carnegie Cup race the week before, but only three-quarters of a length separated all three boats. Prior to that race the low-stroking Ithaca crew had turned in easy victories over B.U., Columbia, and Syracuse twice...
...edition of Who's Who included some newcomers. Among the entertainers: Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, John Wayne, Mario Lanza. In government: Perle Mesta and Mike Di Salle. In fashions: Christian Dior and Jacques Path. In the Manhattan saloon set: Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley...
Post Editor James Wechsler had long been anxious to hang a picture of Winchell for his readers, but he could not find an occasion to his liking. Winchell supplied one by his attacks on Negro Singer Josephine Baker, after she complained that the Stork Club had refused to serve her (TIME, Nov. 12). When the race-conscious Post took her side, the paper heard that Stork Club Owner Sherman Billingsley had set agents to investigating Post Owner Dorothy Schiff...
...unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell for writing his "schmaltz" columns, such...