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Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler used to be a Bowery pickpocket. From thieving, petty assaults and a stretch in Sing Sing he stepped up into the real estate business. For partners he had a pair of plug-uglies named Max Hassel and Max Greenberg. His real estate business served as a cloak for bigtime bootlegging in New Jersey. By 1931 the Wexler breweries at Paterson and Union City were returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living...
Sitting Pretty (Paramount) concerns two songwriters, one serious (Jack Haley) and one deluded by conceit (Jack Oakie), who hitchhike from Manhattan to Hollywood, there indulge in romance, alcohol and creative work. Haley becomes attached to a blonde waif (Ginger Rogers) who meets the pair on their way West, follows them to Hollywood. Oakie grows fond of an erratic actress (Thelma Todd), who abandons him when he loses...
Sirs: TIME Nov. 13 outlines Fur Trade and Fur Farming Industry briefly, clearly. TIME does err in one particular, the price of select breeding mink. $300 a pair for breeding mink is reminiscent of the promotion days of fur farming when silver foxes sold for $5,000 a pair, frequently earning large dividends on the enormous investment. Today's prices of breeding stock based on fur value. Fur farmers today glad to get half the prices quoted by TIME for select Alaska, Quebec, Labrador mink. ROY D. HARMAN...
...From the pair police sweated a full confession. They described the crime even down to the detail that Hart "struggled slightly" as they hoisted him over the rail. Their explanation of the murder: "We didn't want to bother lugging him around the countryside...
...Francisco and hold Southern California to a scoreless tie. . . . The center, Clyde Devine, is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and weighs 191 Ib. The running guard who plays next to him is Vernon Wedin, eleven inches shorter and 190 Ib. in heft. They're a fine looking pair...