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...also one of the best pitchers in the U.S. and while at Yale he had offers from six big-league teams. But his ambition lay in the ministry and he concentrated on Bible under William Rainey Harper. When Harper became president of brand-new University of Chicago, he offered Lonny Stagg $1,500 to head the athletic department...
...writing the yearly story about the lush pay of Hollywood stars blinked and looked again. No. 1 on the list was no surprise: as usual, it was the Majmifico of the Movies, Loew's and M.G.M.'s cold-eyed Louis Burt Mayer. But No. 2 was a brand-new name: Carl Gustave Swebilius, head of a New Haven, Conn, engineering outfit called Dixwell Corp., and of two subsidiaries aptly named High Standard Manufacturing Co. and High Standard Manufacturing Corp...
...review of the movie Mr. Lucky (TIME, Sept. 20) mention is made of a "new brand of double talk (sample: 'Lady from Bristol' for 'pistol'). . . ." Rhyming slang, of which this is a specimen, has long been current among certain classes of English-speaking people, and the matter has been pretty thoroughly covered by students of slang, cant...
...still higher rental ($120,000) than Lurie's top price to them. To add insult to injury, Penney's nondescript store site was hard by San Francisco's largest department store, The Emporium. Hale's only consolation: the hope (and expense) of building a brand-new store on another Market Street corner after...
Lurie, born on Chicago's tough West Side, quit school in the third grade to sell papers, did so well with the brand-new Chicago American. ("Whatever the customer gave us, we'd take and run away") that Hearst had to run page-one notices calling attention to the paper's official 1? price. Then he drifted out to Vancouver, made and lost several small fortunes learning the real-estate business...