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...Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable for its experiment with new music. Much of its dialog was silly and few of its singers were Grade A. Particularly objectionable to first nighters was the "baby talk" of one girl performer (Loretta Clemens). Last week's best song: "Under Your Spell...
...Personality" Dr. Edwin G. Flemming of Manhattan wondered what traits in a young girl moved others to say: "She has personality." He had some high-school teachers grade 84 girls on personality and on a long list of character factors. He discovered that to be ranked high in personality a girl should be: interesting in conversation, competent, a person of wide interests, intelligent, athletic, a good sport, sincere, adaptable. He also found eight personality types: the entertaining, the brilliant, the culture-talented, the just, the pretty, the good fellow, the good neighbor, the diplomat...
...where his employer taught him the game, gave him mounts when he improved sufficiently to go to Meadow Brook. The 10-goal handicap he got last winter was the reward for his performance in the first East-West series. Elmer Boeseke, the other 10-goaler, is the biggest high grade U. S. poloist: 6 ft. 4 in. He played on the 1924 Olympic team which lost to the Argentines in Paris. Eric Pedley, whose j handicap was reduced from 9 to 8 two years ago, is still considered the best No. 1 in the world. He is the same...
...traditional auction. There he does not have to take the prices offered. But since the farmer is perpetually hard up and the principal tobacco buyers can be numbered on the fingers, he actually has little choice. His neighbor at another warehouse may receive a higher price for the same grade of tobacco at the same time...
...small measure this haphazard system exists because there is no Tobacco Exchange. A group of Manhattan brokers, however, have decided that there will be a futures market within a week. Highest hurdle they had to jump was to find a satisfactory grade of tobacco to use as the standard trading medium. There are countless grades "of cotton but the base contract is Middling ? in. Upland. All departures from the standard grade are adjusted between buyer & seller. Likewise the New York Tobacco Exchange, instead of dealing in Bright Flue-cured, Dark-fired Kentucky, Burley, One-sucker, Green River, Black...