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...eyes being bigger than you stomach promptly rush into a self-serving lunch room and try to make their stomachs bigger than their eyes." Mr. Allen now began climbing inside a polar explorer's fur suit, remarking or the general depression in the theatre business. "The trouble with this racket is that all the shows has gone out of the hands of the theatrical families who knew how to amuse people, and into the hands of the business men who don't know a good show from high school and other where talent used to be tried...
...stigma attached to it and it will be hard for many to reconcile the fact that Harvard's name and the name of one of her head coaches will be mentioned continually in connection with professional boxing, which today is less an athletic pursuit and more a well controlled "racket...
...rescued. Not satisfied with the Post's huge circulation of the Garrett theme, Francis Patrick Garvin, president of the Chemical Foundation and a good hater of German industry, distributed 500,000 reprints of the first two articles in a pamphlet entitled "O. P. M. The Greatest American Racket...
...perhaps as old as the Press itself, is the foregoing strategy, known in its cruder manifestations as the "we boys" racket ("We boys on the staff want to give you the breaks. . . ."). Twenty-five years ago William Travers Jerome, famed crusading District Attorney of New York, tried unsuccessfully to make it a reason for putting Town Topics, oldtime "society" gossip sheet, out of existence. Last week the editors of Town Topics (still going strong as a 25? biweekly) and of the younger and more venomous Tatler & American Sketch (50? monthly) were in the offices of New York State...
Close on the heels of the society magazines go solicitors for pseudo press associations, another variation of the "we boys" racket. Instead of selling stock they sell "memberships" or a "service."' A man or woman who buys stock in a society sheet speedily becomes known as a "tap." If other salesmen who follow are successful it is understood that the original "tapper" gets a commission...