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...through their investments. The Bishop of Springfield, Mass. was listed as an unsecured creditor for $460,000, and as the maker of notes for $735,000. Denis Cardinal Dougherty, Philadelphia's archbishop, was listed for $25,000. Other creditors included the bishops of Scranton, Harrisburg, Trenton, and Actor Hal Skelly. The diocese of Buffalo, first to bring suit, breathed easier to find it would recover all its $30,000 in bonds...
...Philip Hal Sims, Howard Schenken, Willard S. Kara & David Burnstine, famed "Four Horsemen" of the Deal (N. J.) Bridge Club: the team-of-four contract championship at the American Whist League Congress in Cleveland; with 18½ matches out of a possible...
...only recommendation lies in the fact that no one knows anything about him. As soon as the preternatural stupidity of Hicks becomes apparent, his committeemen perceive the necessity of hiring someone to promote his candidacy and to disguise his most obvious disqualifications. They find a campaign manager named Hal Blake (Warren William ) lodged in an alimony jail. "Hicks from the sticks" is the slogan which Blake invents; he approves when Hicks replies to reporters' questions by saying, "Yes&$151;and again, no." The main difficulty in electing Hicks is furnished by Blake's divorced wife. Bribed...
Last week President Edgar Winfred Stark of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana. Mo.,* flourished the papers which gave him the first patent in the world on a fruit tree. It covers his Hal-Berta giant peach tree. The Hal-Berta, President Stark excitedly sets forth, "bears uniformly large, rosy-cheeked, delicious to eat, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches, many of them weighing more than a pound, ripening a few days after the Hale-Elberta [peach] season when a truly high quality peach such as the Hal-Berta Giant will mean profit to the man who grows them and pleasure...
...Hal Sims was chagrined at being ranked second last week, he could console himself by remembering that most bridge players still consider him, year in, year out, the best player in the U. S.; that he has won more contract championships than anyone else; that last fortnight David Burnstine dedicated a book (One-Over-One?Walter J. Black, Inc., $1), in which he explained the Four Horsemen's bidding systems, to "P. Hal Sims . . . Master card player of the world. . . ." To Sidney Lenz and Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt, who played in a few tournaments last year, and a dozen others...