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...came to see in them the hope of labor, and recognized that her kind of work could now be carried on more effectively in cooperation with them. But for the future, the lessons she learned at Cleveland will always hold good. Even the most iron-bound collective bargaining contract cannot by itself insure good labor relations. The human elements too important. Mary Gilsons will always be in demand as long as there are employers and employees...
Last week 26-year-old Alice Marble, four-time U. S. Singles champion, undefeated in 28 consecutive tournaments, did what most perennial tennis champions eventually do nowadays, if they get a chance: signed a contract to play for pay. She will devote four and a half months to the promotion of Wilson tennis racquets, will play in 50 U. S. cities, starting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Jan. 6. Her fellow troupers: Don Budge, Bill Tilden and a co-ed partner (probably Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 ranking player). Her first year's guarantee...
...Englanders), from Bangor, Me. to Hong Kong. These ardent readers feared that the Old Farmer's 1940 issue would be its last. After the death of its fourth copyright owner, Bostonian Carroll J. Swan, in 1935, Little, Brown & Co. agreed to publish the almanac for five years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th was scheduled to come out bright & shiny as ever, kitchen-nail hole and all. Its new publisher: shrewd, shaggy Robb Sagendorph, Boston social registerite and Harvardman ('22), who publishes and edits the monthly Yankee, at Dublin...
...engines a year by late 1941. Said Charles Sorensen: "I did not believe such a stupendous job could be done in such a short time." Then he went back to Detroit, broke ground for an $11,000,000 engine plant there before he got his contract...
...imposing list of top-flight contemporary composers (Paul Hindemith, Serge Prokofieff, William Grant Still, Deems Taylor, et al.) have vowed that they would spend their lives working for Disney if he would give them the chance. Composer Igor Stravinsky himself has signed a contract to do more music with Disney, has blandly averred that Disney's paleontological cataclysm was what he had had in mind all along in his Rite of Spring. Musicians and sound engineers who came to hear Soundman Garity's gadgets perform found that such recording had never before been even approached. Music lovers crowed...