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...memory of Cleveland was recalled last week in Manhattan. Recalling the hard winter of 1893-94, said Jerome, grey-haired Major Domo and for 42 years an employe of smart Sherry's restaurant: "On either side of the 6th Avenue entrance to Central Park there was a soup kettle and there you could see long lines of people-men, women and little children -standing and waiting in six inches of snow. "All the good restaurants and hotels had many cancellations of dinners, balls and coming-out parties that had been planned. This season we, for one, haven...
Caterpillar Jr. Within 100-mi, of Los Angeles, his goal for a "junior transcontinental speed record,"* Gerald Nettleton. 20, of Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house...
...Opening of a $300-a-day soup kitchen in Chicago by Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone...
...Johannes Brahms. Tenderly, painstakingly, he molded every phrase and his men, as one, obeyed him. Magnificently he soared through the concluding chorale and even the stodgiest horn-player seemed to find the wings with which to follow. Then the little Italian called a pause, ate a bowl of soup with a raw egg in it before going on with the preparation of his first Manhattan concert of the season...
...Received a proposal from Thomas Dunbar Green, president of American Hotels Association, that hotels throughout the land donate a daily quota of soup and bread to hungry jobless...