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...Brooklyn, John Gentrio, barber, called Herman Finsel, plumber, to repair a leaking pipe. Plumber Finsel went back to get a gasket; Barber Gentrio held his thumb on the pipe five hours. Later, when Plumber Finsel came to the barber shop to have his beard shaved, Gentrio shaved half of it; departed, taking all the razors in the shop to be honed; stayed out five hours...
...Prairie Pipe Line...
...working in the mines. Once, during a shutdown, he studied stenography. A few years later his brother, a Philadelphia telegrapher, obtained work for him as a stenographer and usher in a vaudeville theatre. He went to Philadelphia, was discharged in a week. He obtained work with a sewer-pipe sales agency. The firm failed. He went to work for a metallurgical engineer, learned how to read blueprints. Six months later he went to work for a cement firm. By 1906, when he was 22, he was making $125 a month, had helped bring his parents to Philadelphia...
...final echo of the military tramp of last week's welcome visitors will be swallowed up this afternoon when the Dartmouth Indians' war whoop fills the Stadium. It is always a pleasant sight to find the men from New Hampshire again in town with their pipe of peace. The tradition of the Dartmouth game is not new; but it is still young enough to stimulate plenty of enthusiasm on both sides...
...critics, dodging nervously among socialites, were impressed. Of the 29 canvases on view, not one was unimportant. Present were such frequently reproduced works as Picasso's mustachioed Harlequin, a good Tahiti Gauguin, Renoir's Claude as a Clown in Red, Cezanne's Man with a Pipe, eight irreproachable Derains. Another beauteous young socialite ma tron to take art seriously is Mrs. Mary Gallery Coudert, who last week obtained a Paris divorce from Attorney Frederic R. ("Fritz") Coudert Jr. (defeated last November for New York's District Attorney- ship by Tammany's Judge Thomas...