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...each week from the quizzed quintet are a pair of Kids for whom the going has been too tough. For consolation they receive $50 in Government bonds, which is half the reward paid their successful associates. Master of ceremonies on Quiz Kids' program is Joe Kelly. A National Barn Dance hayseed, Joe never got any higher than grammar school, feels pretty uneasy in the heady company of the kids...
...Ernest Tener Weir, in behalf of the industry, had two weeks ago demanded that exports of U. S. scrap be limited. Such regulations need not hurt the Allies, who buy mostly finished steel and steel products, but to impose it now would be about as useful as locking a barn door ex post facto...
...South Seas because he couldn't make the grade, who painted distorted pictures over which "the shapely natives had every reason to bring libel suits." "At their worst," said Mr. Coburn firmly, "[their paintings] resembled the crude elemental expressions which nitwits affix to sidewalks, barn doors and elsewhere-especially elsewhere." To him Boston was "a community which today possesses the best school of painting in existence anywhere...
...Jeffries Barn flocked Hollywood's upper crust, more to enjoy Belle Martell's entr'acte gags-picked up during 20 years of vaudeville trouping-than the bouts themselves. Four years ago, when Husband Martell was hired to promote the Los Angeles Athletic Club's boxing shows at the Olympic Auditorium, Mrs. Martell not only helped with promotion but promptly got an announcer's license, later a timekeeper's license-first ever issued to a woman. Last week, in the State examination for referees. Intruder Martell got 97½. a higher mark than...
...woman the California Athletic Commission considers capable of refereeing boxing matches is wiry, 45-year-old Belle Martell. No upstart, Belle Martell has been in the boxing business for ten years-ever since her husband. Art Martell, onetime Australian lightweight champion, hired an old barn near Los Angeles (on the ranch of onetime World's Champion Jim Jeffries), started putting on amateur boxing shows...