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Tobacco when he looked at the pile of proxies to be voted in his favor at the stockholders' meeting last week. No similar pleasure accrued to Stockholder Rich ard Reid Rogers who had attempted to muster a bloc in protest of President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume...
...architect, an alderman, a man of wealth is clever little Purchaser Bossom. Like Sculptor Epstein he is of Semitic descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress...
...others and some next to others. Once they had all the blocks erected into a magnificently lofty column. For a moment they stood aside and admired their handiwork, and then Johnnie said impatiently, "Oh, let's knock it down! I don't like it. I want another pile." So, with mirthful glee they destroyed their tower and built another...
...unworthily, by the Freshman squash courts, and library, a beautiful memorial park, small, perhaps, but perfect. Cambridge is too encumbered at present with brick and stone. In the years to come the situation will only grow more pressing. Why not substitute a spot of natural beauty, for the Garganiuan pile that has been proposed? The Vagabond can think of no more fitting memorial to the war dead...
...Madison Square Garden, Jim Londos humped an enormous torso shaped like a single pile of white dough and topped with a tiny spike of head, wrapped his arms around Jim McMillen, U. S. wrestler who once played with Red Grange on Illinois' football team. For 56 minutes, 54 seconds they grunted, sweated, flopped with terrific thuds on the canvas. Once Londos threw McMillen out of the ring. Then McMillen slipped Londos through the ropes. Then both fell down into the press bench, were helped in again, resumed grappling. At last Londos picked up McMillen, slapped him down, rolled...