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...appearance. He went around in a shabby alpaca coat, trousers inches too short. His beard covered his shirt front, so he never wore a collar. On rainy days he took his daily walk in the Prater wrapped in an old-fashioned green shawl fastened in front with an enormous pin. Like Scientist Albert Einstein he scorned socks...
...that Mr. Roosevelt, especially with the advantage a President in a press conference has over his guests, can avoid answering anything he does not want to answer. He is a master of avoidance, and the rules of courtesy, plus the prestige of his great office, preclude any attempt to pin him down. He gives out in these conferences just what he wishes to give out, and, if he is in a tight place, there is always the unfair device of 'off the record,' or the less blameworthy evasion: 'I haven't read...
...demonstration method in teaching the tricks of the trade and goes to it with Johnson when he wants to show the boys how it is done. Although the Harvard team cannot compare with Oklahoma, nevertheless, Cliff still maintains that he can uphold the honor of the East and pin his brother to the mat at any appointed time. There is a good natured family match in the offing and Gallagher has waived the matter of a referee since he believes that no human eye could follow his motions...
...game manufacturers, a small respectable family of 35, have their own NRA code. Like the four Mills brothers* who make vending machines adorned with plums and cherries, they keep at a safe distance from the sleazy arcades. They sell pin games to the wholesaler. The wholesaler sells them to the operator for $40 or $50. The operator takes a machine around to cafes, smoke shops, arcades, where he installs it with the permission of the owner, known as the "location" man. The operator and location man split 50-50 or 60-40 on the proceeds during the life...
...manufacturers like Rabkin, and Chicago's D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally Manufacturing Co., Genco, Inc., and Rockola Manufacturing Co., are never at a loss for new ideas. Last week Mr. Rabkin's staff of artists and engineers were busy on a pin game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they...