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...shows for the service men are to be "clean but humorous." Before they can go on, the Army's Morale Division has to okay them. In the promotion for Camp Shows, the word "sex" is archly avoided. As a makeshift for it, Camp Showmen have coined a yoo-hoo substitute-"woodle...
Eichelberger: Okay. I'm mad and here...
...Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds of freelance tarts paid $400,000 a year for protection, its bookmakers $180,000; total take from all forms...
Cobb was the first to blow up. "That So-and-So," he barked, "I could always lick him on a ball field and I can lick him on a golf course now." "Okay," Babe wired, "if you want to come here and get your brains knocked out, come on." Last week Cobb came. Golf Promoter Fred Corcoran had arranged two 18-hole matches (one in Boston, one in New York) for charity. To see the two southpaws with strange bats in their hands, 2,000 folks turned out at Boston's Commonwealth Country Club. They saw no heckling match...
Washington expects CAB to okay all ten of the pending present airmail feeder applications before year's end, also expects Congress to appropriate the needed $4,000,000-$5,000,000 to pay for the service at 30 to 40? a mile...