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After a fourth season of sagging attendance and mounting deficits in both leagues, National League club owners deputized thick-set League Commissioner Bert Bell to deal secretly with Manhattan Attorney J. Arthur Friedlund, the chosen negotiator of the All-America Conference. In two days & nights of almost continuous bargaining in Philadelphia's Racquet Club, the two men reached agreement...
...France Pertinax will write thrice weekly for Pierre Lazareff's France-Soir-never again, he says, will he write daily, as he did for 21 of his 32 years on the Echo de Paris. But for a sexagenarian, grey, thick-set Pertinax will be busy: he will also edit the weekly L'Europe Nouvelle, as he did after he split with Echo in 1938 over its appeasement policies. He intends to update his best-selling U.S. book, Gravediggers of France (Pétain, Gamelin, Reynaud, Daladier). Then at last it can be published, perhaps, in the country where...
Career of a Schoolmaster. Head of Duncan School was suave, thick-set William Callaway Duncan, 53, son of a onetime Georgia Senator. Educated at the University of Georgia, Columbia, Yale and Oxford, he made a name for himself! in 26 years (1914-40) as head of Irving Lower School in Tarrytown, N.Y., made many a prosperous acquaintance through a thriving summer camp which he started at Newport, Vt. in 1916. In 1940, with money left him by his aunt, he struck out for himself, opened an expensive school near New Milford, Conn. The building shortly burned down. Then he moved...
...Suave, thick-set Emilio Fortes Gil (pronounced heel), who was Provisional President after the assassination of Alvaro Obregon in 1928 and who helped Cárdenas into power only to be squeezed out by machinations of Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Government's extreme left wing...
...other personal respects M. Debussy was equally Bohemian. A short-legged, thick-set man, seldom in funds, he was forever wandering indolently into Left Bank and Montmartre cafes. There he would sit in a cape and large felt hat, ordering rarebits and English ale, rolling his own cigarets. He preferred the circus to the opera, and disliked listening to music, though he accepted several jobs writing music criticism for Paris publications. He finally succumbed to cancer of the rectum one spring when Big Bertha was dropping shells into Paris...