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...Heavy Toll. Reuther was exaggerating-as is sometimes his wont. But the new credit restrictions, plus the new tax bite, were taking a heavy toll in other businesses besides autos. The prices of new houses, which were removed from the easy credit field at the same time as autos, were not yet dropping, but sales were down...
Then his wife Fay sued him for divorce, complaining that he gave her only $10 a week to run the house and was wont to belabor her and the three oldest of the four kids with a blackjack. Reformers started a recall movement, and Attorney John J. Fish slapped a $100,000 libel suit on Orville for accusations he had made while electioneering. The mayor talked his wife into dropping the divorce suit and outwitted those who wanted to recall him-but he lost the libel suit...
...Snitchler turned to the wrong college. He called in experts from Colgate University. Colgate Associate Professor of Fine Arts Alfred R. Krakusian agreed with Snitcheler that the bust was typical of those which are wont to decorate college buildings. But Colgate Archivist Howard D. Williams dashed their hopes. He reported that there were no reports of either Tallman or Park at Colgate at the time the statue was carved...
Then the H.D.C. did experimental plays. It wont to New York, got interesting new plays that no one else would produce, and put them on in Cambridge. The average cost was $600 per play...
Ralph Sutton came cast from St. Louis two years ago for a short New York contract, and just stayed. His unique approach to ragtime piano and his remarkable repertoire have kept him popular. Customers at Condon's, once wont to chat through intermission piano and save their attention for the antics of Bruins, now treat the band with a conversational scorn but restrain themselves to gentle hell taps while Sutton experiments between sets...