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...Lady of Kearny Street" went out of business last week. Closed was the powerful bail-bond firm of McDonough Bros., which had flourished for 50 years in San Francisco. The building-in the shadow of the Hall of Justice (police courts)-still has the cupid-festooned ceilings, mahogany woodwork and silver spittoons of the days when it was a saloon. San Franciscans believe it was the first bail-bond firm in the U.S. It was without a doubt the most notorious business house in San Francisco...
...Five hundred glass-container workers in Baltimore faced firing when Swindell Bros, found it could get no fuel...
...James Cagney (Warner Bros...
Paunchy Henry Lewis Mencken as a ringmaster, balding Walter Duranty as a clown are two new attractions promised by Ringling Bros.' greatest show on earth next season. Ringling's insists it's on the level, that the writers put their names on the dotted line, but the best Mencken would say was "I'm meditating upon the offer," while Duranty said his own acceptance is "most improbable." Circusman John Ringling North started it over drinks in a Manhattan nightclub. His bid for Mencken was $12 a week, for Duranty...
...Philadelphia ballgame from Ebbets Field. Bulova Watch Co. paid $4 for a time signal before the game, $8 for another in the evening. Sun Oil Co. shelled out $100 to televize Lowell Thomas and his news, Procter & Gamble paid the same to put on Truth or Consequences and Lever Bros, another $100 to give their television of Uncle Jim's Question...