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Tibbett's success is reminiscent of the boom years, which for concerts ended not with the stock crash but with radio and sound movies which came in at a time when the market was already imperilled by too many second-rate artists. In the boom years Galli-Curci and John McCormack were the big money-making concert singers. They would get 100 engagements a season and they needed no advertising. Phonograph records built up their names, besides earning them royalties which year after year ran over $100,000. Deflation has weeded out second-raters and for the top-notchers...
...left the Academy, a high-standing graduate in engineering, with four letters and two sabres for all-around athletic prowess. Athlete Vidal went to the 1919 Inter-Allied games in Paris, played on the winning rugby team. Next year he was at the Olympics in Antwerp. An automobile crash had split a muscle in his throwing arm. Ambidextrous, he hurled the javelin with the other, finished seventh in the Decathlon...
...official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt at the red-painted wooden block. Six times the executioner's broad sward flashed in a silver circle to crash down on a human neck...
...disturbed. The last nail has been driven into the coffin of our most ambitious attempt to secure world cooperation of economically national states; it rested on a shifting, essentially unstable foundation and all the king's speeches and all his good premiers couldn't prevent the inevitable crash. If ever another attempt is made, the experience of this effort to link together the jarring atoms of capitalistic units will doubtless be instructive. CASTOR
This New York Herald Tribune advertisement, obviously referring to the crash of a passenger plane in Indiana, last week afforded a rare treat to regular readers of Public Notices in U. S. newsheets. "Personal" columns in London papers are usually full of interesting and mysterious appeals, appointments and code messages. In the U. S. they are taken up almost exclusively by statements from husbands who will no longer be responsible for their wives' debts, eccentric job-hunters, Mexican divorce lawyers and, in Manhattan, the dismal efforts of one Hiram Mann to get himself elected to Congress on a platform...