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Frank Erickson, onetime waiter, is now the largest commissioner in the U. S. His business-derived mostly from agents in cigar stores, poolrooms and newsstands along the Eastern seaboard-is backed by about $4,000,000. When he goes to Belmont Park, he sits in the clubhouse among socialites who patronize the betting-shed bookmakers-of whom Frank Erickson finances four. Trusted implicitly by his enormous clientele, Bookmaker Erickson was reported to have lost $150,000 last summer, mostly at a Saratoga meeting which put many of his less substantial rivals out of business...
...Manhattan, Broadway reporters picked up the trail of a Frank Wallace who played the part of a Bowery singing waiter in Mae West's Diamond Lil in 1928, learned he had died two years ago. Actor Wallace's picture zipped over 3,000-mi. of telephone wire to Hollywood. Mae West: "Yes, I remember that face. But I was never married to anybody." ¶Manhattan newshawks rooted up an-other Frank Wallace in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie La Mae. Readily Hoofer Wallace admitted it was he who had married Mae West in Milwaukee. Hearst...
...reward but a few extra dividends as well. Author Merwin reveals few intimate details of the inner Liggett, but those few shed their little beams. In his salad days Liggett once took a girl to dinner at a restaurant, faced artichoke for the first time. When the waiter saw that he was painfully swallowing each leaf he tactfully interposed, got a rebuff for his pains. Said Liggett: "You'd better mind your own business. I always eat them this way at home." Famed among drugmen are Liggett's letters to the trade, invariably addressed "Dear Pardner." Sample...
Early one evening last week a waiter with a tray of cocktails approached two grey-haired, dinner-jacketed gentlemen chatting amiably in the Colonel's Reception Room of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. One smiled, shook his head. The other grinned, took a glass, raised it in his companion's direction, cried, "To your health!" Few minutes later Herbert Clark Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith marched out to a banquet table, sat down to continue their chat over the water tumblers. After dinner the Presidential rivals of 1928 mounted the same platform for the first time...
Should the Advisers be closer at hand to their Advisees so that they will have more direct contact with them? Should courses be conducted by men capable of inspiring enthusiasm or should the emphasis be placed on scholarship? Can any more satisfactory solution be found for the student waiter in the Union? These are only a few of the questions which will come under the Committee's scrutiny. Certainly a sane solution is needed for them and the many others like them...