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...some years Malcolm Jameson, one-time chief draftsman in the U. S. Navy, felt that his present occupation of insurance salesman did not give him a full emotional outlet. At loss for a hobby, he purchased a large wooden salad bowl, heated the tip of an icepick red hot and traced on the bowl a map which he tastefully tinted with Mercurochrome. A group of Mr. Jameson's salad bowls, which he prefers to call "Segmaps," were on view in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, priced...
...where possible, to dramatize Coronet's, contents, the show's material was not restricted to this specification. Said NBC's publicity department: "Deems Taylor is the absolute dictator. . . . He balks at nothing. ... He and his musicians and radio actors have interpreted . . . the photograph of a bowl of goldfish . . . four bananas dancing on a piece of wallboard...
...bowler properly registered with the A. B. C. can bowl in the tournament by paying an entrance fee. If bowlers were allowed more than three games in each event the Congress would probably never adjourn. Since three games do not permit any more thorough demonstration of skill than nine holes of golf or half an hour of poker, a member of the small company of really top-class bowlers in the U. S. is not much more likely to win the individual championship than a member of the large class of able bowlers who can average 200 points a game...
Eminently successful was Mr. Babst, for American Sugar in 59 grades and 269 different kinds of packages now sells around one-third of all sugar in the big U. S. bowl. Nevertheless, while Mr. Babst has changed U. S. sugar from a bulk to a packaged commodity in his long patriarchal rule, he has not forgotten his early law. Last week he mailed to his 21,000 stockholders an annual report which looked and read like a legal brief...
...hitchhike on the farm relief wagon, although all refiners of sugar are solely middlemen who have no more to do with production than laundrymen have to do with cotton planting,'' cried Chocolateer Staples. "For the domestic refiners to dramatize themselves as doughty defenders of the American sugar bowl is child's play. Mr. Babst, head of the largest American refinery concern, complains about a loophole in the tariff. It is also a loophole through which the American people can shoot at the target of monopoly...