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...Skater Bobby Blake was no musician. But when Blake tootled a couple of notes on the clarinet to set the mood for his act in Holiday on Ice, James Caesar Petrillo soaked him $17 for a card in his A.F.L. American Federation of Musicians. Blake, already a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Variety Artists, mainly a vaudeville union, paid to keep Petrillo's musicians from walking out on the show...
Over the years we have learned a good deal about our Canadian readers. They include all of Canada's 20 cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Skater Barbara Ann Scott, and businessmen like Edward P. Taylor, president of Argus Corp., etc. A majority of them are businessmen, of whom 75% are executives. More than 75% of all our readers in Canada live in cities...
Dick Button, Olympic and world men's champion figure skater, is favored to retain his North American title when he takes the ice at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, today for the North American championship...
Koch, who comes from Minnesota--a source of good hockey players-- is the squad's high scorer. The records credit him with eight goals and four assists. The freshmen's fastest skater, Timpson has shot four goals and helped with seven more. Lynch, an Andover man, plays an aggressive game and strengthens the line with his good passing...
...addressed to the "hip harness and bosom bolster business," heralded a wartime camouflage cloth impregnated by a top secret process with "a per- manent odor of hibiscus, hydrangea, and old rubber boots." It concluded: "If you want to achieve that careless look and avoid skater's steam, kill two birds with one stone by getting a camouflaged callipygian* camisole." Such lusty ballyhoo - for Springs Mills' "Springmaid" fabrics - startled readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated...