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...arithmetic last week engaged the attention of U. S. citizens interested in the question of what commercial aviation company shall be Uncle Sam's mailman on the New York-Chicago leg of the transcontinental air mail route. "Why," asked figurers, "did Postmaster General New award the New York-Chicago contract to the National Air Transport Co.'s bid of $1.24 a pound when the North American Airways Co. bid $1.23 a pound, and when Capt. Earle F. Stewart of Manhattan bid 35¢ a pound?" Computers added also that U. S. Comptroller General McCarl had previously ruled that the Government should...
Rogers Hornsby, slugging second-baseman, had been manager of the world champion St. Louis baseball Cardinals; had demanded a three-year contract, calling for $50,000 per year. Owner Sam Breadon had refused this demand; had traded Hornsby to the New York Giants. Negotiations concluded, it became known that Player Hornsby's earthly possessions were made up of incompatible elements. He owned a contract to play baseball for the Giants, also 1,167 shares of the capital stock of a rival team, the Cardinals. League heads, fearing scandal, said that he must dispose of one or the other...
Also in Vienna, where alert judges have accepted the evidence of blood chemistry in determining paternity, the court last week accepted the psychoanalysis of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Singer Richard Gauber, contracted to the Vienna Opera Company, refused to return from leave of absence in Berlin because, as he explained, "he could not stand traveling and because he was able to act and sing much better before a German than an Austrian audience, as the latter affected him mentally." In evidence he offered Dr. Freud's analysis of his mental eddies. The judge gravely studied the report and decided that...
Chicago Civic Opera Company announced a new contract with its musicians, union men all. Last year the average salary, from harp to kettledrum, was $132 per week. The new average: $150 per week; next year, $162 per week...
...PEACHES" said black type more than an inch high, in a Pittsburgh newssheet. Frances Heenan Browning, blonde, buxom, onetime darling of the tabloids, had signed a contract to expose her nether limbs to the gaze of Pittsburgh's night-clubbers. Pittsburghers, righteously indignant, "canned" "Peaches," forced the cancellation of the contract. Meanwhile, Dr. Henry J. Schireson, Chicago plastic surgeon, surveyed the aforementioned nether limbs with interest; gossip said that "Peaches" agreed to pay him $10,000 to remove her acid burn scars and bring slender shapeliness to her amply-built legs...