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Fortnight ago, Harmon played his last game for Michigan.* Hardly had he cast off his famed 98 jersey (which will be retired to a shrine in Michigan's Field House), than professional football clubs began making do-or-die tackles for him. Red Grange, who had made 31 touchdowns in his varsity career, had been lured into the Chicago Bears' line-up-at a reputed $10,000 a game-the week after he played his last game for Illinois. Nowadays, college footballers cannot play professional ball until their class has graduated. But any player who in eight games...
Married. Jayne Smathers, 23, daughter of New Jersey's lank Senator William H. Smathers; and Albert Capatosta, 26, a radio program salesman; at Ventnor...
Night before Thanksgiving, Dubinsky dropped into the bar of the Hotel Roosevelt. Joseph Fay, who once was shot by a policeman, rose to become boss of building trade unions in New Jersey, was there before him. It was after midnight. Fay, according to witnesses and his later acknowledgment, had been drinking since 5 in the afternoon. Others in the bar included George E. Browne, president of the stage hands' union, 12th vice president of A. F. of L. Once charged with being the "front" for the Capone mob, Browne boasted among officials of his union Willie Bioff, convicted panderer...
Junior Programs was started, and is still run, at no salary, by a New Jersey suburbanite, Mrs. Dorothy McFadden, who wanted to give her children something better than they could get from radio and comic strips. Though its audiences are small fry, Junior Programs performers are adult professionals, paid at union rates. Last year Junior Programs troupes traveled 80,000 miles, gave 558 performances of opera, ballet, drama to nearly 1,000,000 youngsters, at admissions of 10? to 25?. Since each performance costs about $300, Junior Programs bookings must be sponsored locally by organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, Parent-Teacher...
...cattle, one-half the 1910 total. Then State-enforced "dipping" (in arsenic solution) started a comeback. The Florida Department of Agriculture now boasts of 1,400,000 head. But many Florida cattle are still underfed and mangy, bring only $20.90 a head (against a national average of $40.57, New Jersey high of $98.40). Dr. Shealy's solution: better grass...