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...Shultz") Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive...
...Davis, that hero of U. S. juveniles on the Beech-Nut radio hour. Grandson of a Protestant minister of Cleveland, Ohio, Meredith was sent to Manhattan to sing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine choir, later began working his way through Amherst by washing dishes. He quit that after a year, took up newspaper work at which he was cheerful but unsuccessful, got his first chance on the stage through the recommendation of a dancer friend. Critics like his freshness and sincerity and the Cornell pressagent is billing him as "the Hamlet...
...Conquer," had at last been hit on as a name, and the opening was set for the night of March 15th, 1773. But the rehearsals dragged badly. Colman's pessimism was contagious. The actors walked through their parts like sulky children. At the last minute the male lead quit, and an erstwhile Harlequin had to take over the part...
...argued that these children did their best under the system available in their towns and even if they were incompetent to pass the college board examinations, college should be open to them. Then it is up to them either to make good or be told to quit college...
Several other colleges have met the situation by introducing "big-time" football and placing it on a professional basis. As a result, gate receipts and educational endowments have gone hand in hand. The H.A.A. quite evidently intends to quit the roller coaster. John Harvard's athletes cannot let their legs get caught in the stocks of athletic receipts...