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Moaned an Etonian two days later in the Personal column of the London Times: Will the numerous Harrovians who, in at tempting to divest a very old Etonian of his trousers, deprived him of two treasured five shilling pieces and a gold safety pin please return one or all to the Army and Navy Club...
...first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked up a sax player or so, a trumpeter, a trombonist, soon had ten players. Soon...
Best singles score among the 1,500 lady bowlers: 626 (for three games), rolled by Detroit's Helen Hengstler. Best singles score among the 7,000 male pin-topplers: 730, chalked up by 59-year-old James Danek of Forest Park, Ill. Other congressional high marks: women's doubles, 1,130; men's doubles, 1,405; five-woman team, 2,618; five-man team, 3,151; women's all-events, 1,724; men's all-events, 2,028. Top-notch women bowlers use the 16-lb. ball, same...
...Last year, although its gross business rose some $4,000,000, its net fell to $7,039,000. Reason: I. T. & T. took a $3,561,479 loss on foreign exchange, for many good sound I. T. & T. earnings in foreign currency turned out to be pin money when translated into dollars...
...dignity of the Indoor Athletic Building suffered a severe shock recently when a large laundry truck parked outside the building. On its side was painted a large safety pin and beneath it, the motto "We like to wash them. You don't." The truck was a messenger of the Dydee Laundry...