Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archibald MacLeish, James Agee '32, president of the Advocate several years ago, has started forth on his poetic career with this slim volume of his verses. In this little book are presented a varied assortment of lyrics, several long poems, quite a collection of sonnets, and a curious "New Yorker"--like prose "Dedication...
...strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
...contracts calling for payment of gold or its equivalent. Last week Attorney General Cummings announced that he will argue the question in person before the Supreme Court. Since the lower courts have generally upheld the law, Mr. Cummings is probably not risking his reputation. One case involves a New Yorker who wants payment in the equivalent of gold for a $1,000 bond of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad-that is, 1,693 paper dollars valued at 59? each. Three similar gold cases involving Missouri Pacific obligations, a Liberty bond and treasury certificates are before the Court. Last week the Supreme...
...became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected...
...AROUND THE TOWN-Herbert Asbury-Knopf ($2.50). Eccentric and scandalous incidents in Manhattan history, most of them reprinted from The New Yorker...