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...clear-eyed American athletes would have felt that they had been denied a great honor and privilege, to say nothing of a free trip to Europe, and might have blamed the Jews for that. Now, however, at most they demonstrated that they did not deserve so much as a nickel ride on a street car much less a voyage deluxe to the Old World. . . . This, then, should result in the manufacture and sale in large quantities of skates, skis, boots and costumes . . . which . . . will be provided by our Jewish neighbors in the garment trade...
Like peep shows, short stories may give a knothole glimpse of real life or a nickel's worth of artifice. Authors Ben Hecht and Kay Boyle are as different as slot machine and peephole. Readers who like their money's worth of entertainment will drop their nickel in Author Hecht; those who want life in the psychological raw will squint through the fence at Author Boyle's queer back yard...
...game industry is a $10,000,000 group of enterprises responsible for some 500 dingy "sportlands" in which an estimated 500,000 U. S. devotees of bagatelle gather every week to piddle away their time. It is responsible also for some 250,000 bagatelle boards, operated by a nickel-in-the-slot, situated in bars, hotel lobbies, lunchrooms and cigar stores throughout the U. S. Last week, bigwigs of the pin-game industry had the most exciting week they have experienced since, for mysterious reasons connected with Depression, nervous introspection and an appetite for echolalia, the modern brand of bagatelle...
...games played indoors by seedy sportsmen. That the pin-game has been able to evade the consequences of this is due to the fact that it is not essentially a form of gambling. Whenever he indulges in it, a pin-game player is sure to lose a nickel. Last year, however, when the novelty of plain pin-games began to wear off, shrewd operators devised the idea of rewarding high scores with prizes. "Sportlands" (of which there were soon 60 in New York) are pin-game parlors which give to their customers coupons commensurate with their scores. Coupons...
...Governor Alf M. Landon as a GOPossibility by creating around him the legend of a penny-pinching "Coolidge of Kansas." there have been impressed on the public mind as his two chief qualifications for the Presidency the facts that he: 1) has "balanced" Kansas' budget; 2) makes nickel bets on University of Kansas football games. Last week a shrewd publicity stroke added one more fact to the Landon Legend. Discovering that his 10,000 Happy New Year cards were so large that they required 1½? stamps, Governor Landon had the printer shave them down to if size, thereby...