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Behind locked doors on the 13th floor of Chicago's Garrick Building, members of the Cook County Women's Christian Temperance Union met excitedly one afternoon last week. Notably absent from the meeting was the group's president, dimpled, thin-haired Mrs. Beata Brucer, 45. Against her the Cook County W. C. T. U. was deliberating grave charges...
Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf: the pocket billiards championship of the world, for the 13th time; by winning nine matches (in one of which he made the tournament's high run of 106), losing none; in Manhattan...
There is an old Wall Street saw that you cannot mix horses and stocks, but Benjamin Block's first horse was a great horse. Kentucky Derby-winner Morvich. Morvich was beaten in his 13th start? and never won another race. Twice a year Broker Block journeys to Elizabeth Pinkney Daingerfield's famed farm near Lexington. Ky. to spend a few hours with Morvich, his brood mares and his colts. "Some day," he says, "I'll have another Derby winner by Morvich. That's a prediction...
...moved into the quarterfinals. Her next opponent was Charlotte Glutting, a 22-year-old from South Orange, N. J. who has played tournament golf only two years, never before in a national championship. It looked easy. Playing along quietly, Enid Wilson was two up at the turn. By the 13th hole, however, Miss Glutting's splendid iron shots had put her one up. At the 14th she holed a chip shot for a half. And at the 18th came a curious thing. Miss Wilson, still one down, had an easy chip & putt to even the match, carry her young opponent...
...making these studies of U. S. industrial efficiency call themselves Technocrats. They have a loose national organization, Technocracy, at No. 159 West 13th St., Manhattan. To Technocracy, engineers, scholars and businessmen send money and information. But the backlog is $100,000 earmarked by the Architects' Emergency Relief Committee. Two dozen otherwise unemployed architects last week were busily codifying the data. When they are through Technocracy will, have an informative industrial survey of North America from 1830 to date...