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...thrown from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. The goalposts are on the goalline, instead of 10 yards behind. How these rules open up the game 30,000 spectators saw for themselves last week when the Chicago Bears played the New York Giants in Chicago's Wrigley Field for the national professional championship. They also saw first hand what many of them had only known about from hearsay before-that the best professional football, given less to grandstand theatricals and more to the theatricals of machine-precision team play, can be more exciting, more sincerely spectacular than the best...
...figures given by him, the United States Steel Corporation controls one half to two-thirds of the iron ore of the country, the Mellon family controls 90 per cent of the aluminum ore, and that seven-eighths of the chewing-gum in the United States is manufactured by Wrigley. He also said that one per cent of the banks of the country control more capital than the other 99 per cent combined...
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Died. William Louis Veeck, 56, president of the Chicago Cubs; of leucocythaemia: in Chicago. Fourteen years ago the Cubs' owner, the late William Wrigley Jr., rubbed raw by withering criticism administered almost daily in Sportswriter Veeck's column, called him in and sarcastically offered him the job of running the club. Veeck accepted. During his tenure the Cubs won two pennants, lost both World Series...
...life plan by 20% of the man's income." Lives known to be insured for $1,000,000 or more include those of Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Cineman Will Rogers. Some jumbos deceased since 1923: Julius Rosenwald, William Wrigley Jr., John Thompson Dorrance...