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...that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times in succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance for his last and crucial shot, Mike Blazek just perceptibly faltered. His ball crossed the head pin for a "Brooklyn"' hit.* The No. 5 pin wobbled, teetered, finally fell. The crowd yelled. Mike Blazek had done what only four bowlers in the 38-year history...
...gentleman turns in a show half-circle to the big, grey building, a smile on his face. The unpleasantness is over for today. A shame about that quarter, he mutters, but necessary. He has a better use for it than as a tip. He slips it into his pocket; there is no jingle from any companion coins. Squaring his shoulders and relaxing his features into peaceful friendliness, he attacks the gradual elevation of worn stone steps. Afterward he will walk home. It will be all right, proper. Today the best people will walk, and he will walk among them...
Asked to comment on this, Hart declared: "I haven't resigned from the executive committee but it has been disbanded." Michael P. Grace '40, president, then hastened to declare that "I have his resignation in my pocket." The statements issued in the official declaration made public by Grace and those made by Hart concerning the way in which the dissolution of the executive committee took place were also conflicting...
...Ringside) after the disappearance from the Fox Western Avenue studios last January of Hon. Detective Chan (Warner Oland). One day during production he stepped out to the water cooler, failed to return, leaving the Ringside case unsolved and Twentieth Century-Fox in danger of being $100,000 out of pocket. The availability of Mr. Moto saved the $100,000, added a feather to the cap of resourceful Producer Sol M. Wurtzel. Later found at his home, Hon. Chan pleaded illness, was granted a leave of absence...
Died. Harry Wardman, 65, Washington real-estate magnate; of cancer; in Washington. An English-born immigrant, he had seven shillings in his pocket when he arrived in Manhattan in 1892 after he had boarded a boat which he supposed was carrying him to Australia. Starting as a contractor's timekeeper, he entered the construction business in Washington, built upwards of 9,000 row houses, several hotels and apartment houses, was said to have been landlord to one in every ten Washingtonians. In 1930, when Hotel Management & Securities Corp. took over his apartments and hotels, he lost most...