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...first year. Then, in 1910. he went into the taxicab business with Walden W. Shaw. The Chicago Athletic Club wanted a private cab service. Messrs. Hertz and Shaw had only two second-hand cars. They borrowed eight others, painted them brightly, paraded past the Chicago Athletic Club, won the contract...
...American Sketches to Thomas Griselle of Mount Vernon, N. Y., graduate (1911) of the Cincinnati College of Music, whose recent activities have been with special radio programs. Second prize has been awarded Rube Bloom of Brooklyn for his Song of the Bayou. Both, according to terms of the contract, are U. S. citizens. Each composition took less than five minutes when smartly played at the banquet by Nat Shilkret and his Victor orchestra. Next day both compositions were released on a record-Griselle's Nocturne and March on one side, Bloom's Bayou with its chorus...
...pages of advertising per issue with which the magazine was launched had shrunk to four. Tactful requests that Editor Frankau modify his Lunatic-Fascist policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...
...Bruce Caldwell, famed Yale footballer. was last year given a contract to play professional football for the New York Giants, after being declared ineligible at Yale. His pay was twice as large as that of any other member of the team. Last week his contract expired and, because he had not played well for the Giants, it was not renewed...
From Paris came roundabout word that Boston Symphony trustees have extended Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's contract indefinitely. The salary, it is said, "exceeds all expectations." Presumably it elevates Conductor Koussevitzky to a financial status comparable with that of Arturo Toscanini (New York Philharmonic Symphony) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski (Philadelphia Orchestra...