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Sirs: . . . The writer, among many thousands, was present on the occasion. According to the advertisement Pickett was to enter the bull ring, wearing a red shirt, with no other person to be in the ring. Instead, prior to his entrance, besides the beautiful reddish-roan, fighting bull, there were some five or six well mounted white cowboys of the Miller outfit, all armed with large calibred revolvers containing blank cartridges, and also carrying lassos. . . . As this was contrary to the announcement, the already existing antagonism of the majority was increased. After an unusually long wait Pickett appeared...
...first performance of the Ninth Symphony was a financial failure. Beethoven's reward from the King of Prussia, to whom he dedicated it, was an imitation diamond ring. The concert last week, except for a few $250 boxes, was sold out the day it was announced. The Philharmonic Symphony sent back $10,000 in checks, turned thousands away from the boxoffice. At the hall when receipts were added it was found that Toscanini had earned some $26,000 for his jobless brothers, only $1,000 less than Paderewski raised in Madison Square Garden, which seats 18,903 against Carnegie...
...defined the efficiency of a prize-fighter by his ability in the ring, Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky") would not rate better than tenth among U. S. heavyweights. Last year he had 15 fights, won only eight. If you defined efficiency as a fighter's ability to earn money at his trade, Kingfish Levinsky might rank as best fighter in the U. S. In the last 15 months, gates at his fights with Slattery, Griffiths, Camera, Paulino and an exhibition bout against Jack Dempsey have amounted to $254,124.68. He may this year earn more than Schmeling, Sharkey, Dempsey, Camera...
...three days Prosecutor Morris collected evidence which, he said, "indicates that at least 50 women and girls have died here in the last year from illegal operations. Oklahoma City is the centre of a thriving, criminal operation industry." He said a "ring of at least a dozen doctors" had been performing abortions, that four known private nursing homes were operated to care for the patients. A Mrs. Leona Smith told Prosecutor Morris she had done an average of five abortions a month during the past three years. She used a formula which cost her $500. "I charged $75 a case...
...listeners, his career and his gangster friend, he sets out to obtain a conviction. Director George Archainbaud directed State's Attorney with a feeling, rare in the cinema, for the trivial and revealing irrelevance of his characters in speech and action. Good shot: Lawyer Corrigan slipping a wedding ring on the finger of Helen Twelvetrees when he is trying to prove that she is no prostitute...