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...dutifully to be a stock broker's clerk. Then he took a $60-a-week job with Paramount Publix, which led to ghosting at the piano, orchestrating Maurice Chevalier's Big Pond, synchronizing shorts. Five years have obliterated his Harvard stamp. He chews gum, wears tan spats, pin-checked suits, hires a trainer to pummel him every morning so that he will appear dapper when he gets chances to conduct in cinemansions. Johnny Green's bathroom is his pride. It is papered with the covers of the 15 songs he has had published. Some of them: "Hello...
...time came when the little boy's friends grew tired of his kind of peanuts. And he was sorry because he couldn't get any more pin money and because a lot of peanuts were left over. So he scratched his head; and then he ran and asked the teacher to excuse him 'cause held eaten some of his peanuts and felt funny. And when he was gone, the teacher told all the little boy's friends that they mustn't buy any more of his peanuts because there was something bad in them...
...food card. Instead of going to a civic food shop as formerly, he will present his card at a shop in the factory where he is employed and will receive food only so long as he keeps his job in that factory. Thus the State hopes to pin down "floaters," reduce labor turnover, increase efficiency. 2) Under a second decree, issued last week, all persons in Russian cities of any size must present themselves to the G. P. U. (secret police) and state good reasons for their presence in the city. If the reasons seem good...
...Brookline, Mass'. Mrs, Harvey Williams Gushing, wife of the famed brain surgeon, mother of Mrs. James Roosevelt, lost a $4,000 pin, got it back by tacking a notice on a post near her home...
...money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert S. Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) ; a radical spectator's impressions of the four Presidential campaign rallies in Madison Square Garden by John Dos Passes; a photograph of society girls feeding sugar to horses in a hotel ballroom, contrasted with one of Chicago relief workers feeding...