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...troupe to throw up jobs as house painters, waiters, butlers and cooks, vacate their berths on WPA. To date the choristers have given 61 concerts at up to $1,500 an appearance, traveling in their own $19,000 bus, from which they once serenaded an astonished chain gang in Georgia. Last week Messrs. Settle & Kramer announced what they were going to do with their net at the end of this season and henceforth. They will provide 20 college scholarships for colored youngsters all over the U. S., to be competed for by examinations in high schools. They also announced that...
...fair-minded majority in the California gold camps and elsewhere on our borders that they organized for a job no one could do alone, equally obvious to us by this time, it seems to me, should be the necessity for the nations controlled by fairdealing people to gang up on the international lawbreakers and enforce a peace we can all work under...
...early 1920s Delaney was back in the U. S. managing a tour for the Our Gang kids. In & out of the U. S. frequently, Delaney, always reticent about his personal life, was something of a mystery man even to his close friends. In 1934 he published his first book, The Lady By Degrees, followed it next year with The Charm Girl, advertised as the "scream-line correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend." Typical sentence: "Remember darling, you can't always judge a man by how he looks as by where he glances, which sometimes makes...
...moaned Manager Durocher, onetime member of the Cardinals' Gas House Gang who, last year, in his first season as manager, hustled the Brooklyn club from seventh to third place. Impartial observers, impressed with the Dodgers' early-season exploits, gave Brooklyn a chance to win the National League pennant for the first time in 20 years...
...German's or Irishman's son whose parents quarrel, who has not misbehaved in school and who belongs to a gang had better go to a reformatory...