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Year ago William Robert Crissey 2nd, 26, quit his job in a Philadelphia brokerage to carry out a $2,000 wager that he could, within a year, dine with Herbert Hoover, golf with Robert Tyre Jones Jr, and with John D. Rockefeller, motor or golf with Edward of Wales. In the first week Mr. Crissey got himself invited to a newsmen's dinner at which President Hoover was guest. But he spent the rest of the year, which expired last week, in unsuccessful pursuit of Golfers Jones, Rockefeller, Edward of Wales...
Although the amount of money which he won ($6.200) was small enough to make the Long story credible, Agua Caliente stewards did not take the matter lightly. They suspended Baron Long, banned his horses at Agua Caliente. Last week, disgusted, he said he would quit racing "forever." Up for sale were the Long racehorses, his Rancho Valle de las Viejas, most pretentious stud farm on the Pacific Coast, valued...
...like the way your magazine clicked on young Mr. Cord. This human dynamo deserves everything you said about him. As far as some bluenoscs giving your rag the quit, you know this is a lot of bologny. This reason, well, where would they get the news as TIME gives it to them. ''Try and get it.'' A little dynamic expression will not harm the best of us. In fact, there is a lot of us that need a stick of dynamite set off under us these days...
When Kenneth Collins, one year out of college, quit teaching freshman composition at the University of Idaho he almost entered the Episcopal ministry but decided to do graduate work at Harvard instead. Passing through Manhattan he saw a five-inch, two-column Macy advertisement: "EXECUTIVE POSITION OPEN IN OUR ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. We require a man of high calibre to supervise and direct a staff of copywriters in the preparation of advertising. This is a key position which offers a creative opportunity and carries with it much responsibility...
...other man who helped to squeeze him was his own lieutenant, fiery Wilhelm Frick, chairman of the National Socialist Party in the Reichstag. Without waiting for his leader to make an announcement, Nazi Frick blurted out to a mass meeting at Kempten, Bavaria, the flat declaration that Bruning must quit, that the Nazis would take no part in the movement to re-elect Old Paul by popular vote. The meaning was clear: If Old Paul wanted Nazi support he must get rid of Bruning, a thing Old Paul would hardly do. Handsome Adolf's mustache wiggled convulsively. Here was possible...