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...arithmetic is arithmetic. Twenty percent of $2,000 is $400. One broadcast a week for a year, at that miserably low figure, is $20,000 per year, and that is only from one radio engagement. If he is really a top-notch band leader, and he must be, to command that salary, he is doubling in a large hotel or night club at God knows what figure; he will undoubtedly play in picture houses: make a movie short or appear in a full-length picture; and his his value as a cigaret or camera endorser will probably not be overlooked...
...lieutenant-colonel, mild War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi resigned to make way for less mild General Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Since a Japanese officer's patriotism is measured by his appetite for Chinese territory, patriotic Major General Hayao Tada, whose appetite is enormous, was sent to sprawling, international Tientsin to command the Japanese garrisons in North China. Last week voracious General Tada called in 20 Japanese correspondents to give them a pamphlet and his views on how much of China Japan should swallow...
Promoted from major to lieutenant-colonel in August, Arthur R. Harris will take command of Harvard's R.O.T.C. unit on Tuesday, replacing Colonel Oliver L. Spaulding, who is going to Washington as chief of the Historical Section of the War College...
...University of Kentucky Law School by leading a jazz band, playing the piano. He coached the Centre College football teams of 1922-27, got himself elected to the State Senate in 1929. There he cultivated Ruby Laffoon, with whom he rode into Frankfort two years later as second-in-command...
...their command Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson have a supply of serum taken from the blood of Chicagoans recently recovered from scarlet fever. This serum ordinarily is used in the treatment of severe attacks of scarlet fever. Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson injected some into patients dying of Streptococcus haemolyticus infection. Only one out of five thus treated died. If scarlet fever serum is not available, the Chicago doctors recommend transfusion of whole blood from a suitable donor who has recently recovered from scarlet fever...