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...Broom. In Strasbourg, France, after the street cleaners union demanded that Deputy Mayor Joseph Zell, 63, apologize or make good his boast that he could sweep the marketplace faster than the regulars, the Mayor grabbed a twig broom, cleared one-third of the area in a fraction of the time it normally took the usual five-man team...
...Zell explained that the staff made the equipment simple so that it could be applied rapidly in case of emergency. Patients usually die when treated three or four minutes after their hearts have stopped beating, he said...
Sophomore Harry Zell led off the sabre match by defeating Consoli of B.U., 3 to 0. The team easily took the other two contests with Forrest Carter and Bob McConaughty winning 3 to 0, and 2 to 1. The team did not lose an individual contest all afternoon...
Dear Wife is played largely on the comic level of such crude gags as the eye that blackens right after the punch. One bright spot: Radio Announcer Harry von Zell trying desperately to get a cheery broadcast out of a family breakfast table where no one is speaking. Holden and Joan Caulfield are likable enough, and Mona is all too convincingly irritating. Comedian Billy De Wolfe deserves to work on television, where he could be turned off at will...
...Down. Brokenshire reached the top of his trade with such other pioneers as Milton Cross and Ted Husing (both still in radio), Harry von Zell (now in movies and radio on the West Coast) and the late Graham McNamee. By 1930 he had also hit the bottom, and was trying the first of many comebacks. It failed when, after a couple of years, Chesterfield fired him for unreliability...