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...Bingham stated that in view of the fact that Horween's contract holds for only a year and that the possibility of its extension is extremely doubtful, the athletic authorities have deemed it wise to place on the 1929 coaching staff those men who are outstanding candidates to succeed to the post of head coach. Casey's record with the Freshman squad has brought him more and more into the running for this berth, he said...
...Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover announced last week that Col. Lindbergh had violated the Pan-American Airways Co.'s contract with the U. S. by transporting 170 pounds of mail stamped by the Republic of Panama to the U. S. Only U. S. mail, pending further postal arrangements in Central America, was to have been carried. Philatelists were charged with responsibility for the violation. Col. Lindbergh was not reprimanded. In Manhattan, last week, a stamped envelope carried over the North Pole in 1926 by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold at auction...
...statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What he consumes instead of meals - a few steak sandwiches with onions, a few dill pickles...
...Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso, $200,000 on a personal contract with Adolph Zukor to make a singing picture for Paramount...
That little sum, nonetheless, was a fine accolade to the oldest national free tuberculosis hospital in the U. S. Jews built it in 1890 when their co-religionists emigrated in waves from their Polish villages to contract consumption in Manhattan's crowded slums. Now the hospital, supported mainly by Jews, has non-Jews on its staff and among its patients...