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...Harvard team, which started the season in such sparkling style against M. I. T., will have a chance to redeem itself tonight by repeating last year's 44 to 23 victory. HARVARD WESLEYAN Romano, lf rf, Bill Slitt Lutze, c c, Hurst Lutz, rf lf, Whalen Finegan, lg rg, Johnson Buckley, rg lg, Roberts
...Jack Whalen and Sanford Glitch will be the Engineers' big potentialities if it is true that Samuels is out. Ernest Avis, George Mavakas and Tom "Red" Dolan will start as guards and center...
...boomed again last week as six 1940 candidates for Governor, including Pappy O'Daniel, wound up their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...
...popular and publicity success, the New York World's Fair of 1939 was a financial flop. By midseason, exhibitors and merchants holding $28,000,000 of its 4% debentures had forced out overconfident Grover Whalen, put Banker Harvey Dow Gibson (Manufacturers Trust Co.) in charge of the books. In September, to help the Fair pay its bills, bondholders had to sacrifice their 40% lien on the gate receipts. During 1939, the bonds dropped from...
Homiest touch: the float bearing Elmer in the Grand Parade got lost. Said Publicityman Casey, watching Elmer & attendants muddle down a sidestreet: "I admit it's corny, but I love it." Paid admissions (191,196) were 7,595 under the first-day Whalen total. More important to Messrs. Gibson & Casey was what their guests would have to tell millions of other U. S. Elmers about the Forty Fair: ¶ Room rates average lower than at the 1939 opening. The Fair advertised: 80,000 hotel rooms at $1.50 to $3; 170,000 between $3 and $5; 200,000 more...