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...Club is more than a social managers' get-together at the Varsity Club. When a manager is sick and unable to look out for the accomodations of a visiting team, then it will be the duty of other managers, probably minor sports managers in their off seasons, to pinch hit. In any case, there will always be a welcoming committee, perhaps not impressive in size, but official at least...
Hollywood labor, to which the present slump was merely the sharpest pinch of a long campaign of studio skimping & saving, fortnight ago engineered a general four-day work week agreement with the studios. And last week, the Screen Actors Guild was facing the problem of 4,000 members of the Guild's junior branch, chiefly extras and occasional players, for whom work has been so scanty that they have been unable to pay union dues. Since no actor in Hollywood can get a job without a Guild card, Guild officials were considering issuing temporary working cards to delinquents, permitting...
Yale's scores were: Morrissey 89-108-102; McNulty 92-94-99; Ahearn 122-114-94; Murphy 112-105-11; Sullivan pinch-hitting for Kelleher...
Harry Donaldson was made playing manager by acclamation and the team will be chosen from among officers George DePinto, Fred Sennott, William Lawrence, "Speed" Kelly, Christy Morris, Matt Toohy, Bill "Flash" Graney, and "Shuffle" Wilson, pinch-hitter...
Last June, after a relatively thriving first six months, railroads began to feel the serious pinch of mounting costs, accompanied by revenues that failed to rise, or tapered off. Long before U. S. business was even worried, railroads knew they were facing a great crisis...