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...silent since last September, was ordered liquidated in July (TIME, Aug. 3). Sale of the fixed assets of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., which once employed 18,000 Manchester workers, was set for mid-October and notices of the auction went up on Amoskeag's long string of buildings. Last week these notices were taken down amid more whoops of civic satisfaction than Manchester had heard for months. From the hazards of auction sale and the hands of Boston trustees, the property of played-out Amoskeag was largely retrieved, subject to almost certain approval of court and creditors, by Manchester...
...instead of taking an extended junket to Russia after college. As early as 1927 Eleanor Golden and Eloise Barrangon presented the first version of this romance to a sympathetic audience of classmates at Northampton. Producer Jed Harris got the play three years later, handed it over to his first-string playwright for doctoring five years after that. According to Miss Barrangon, Mr. Barry, the creator of such sophisticated dramas as Paris Bound and The Animal Kingdom, "added a great deal to building up the men characters." The men characters, all of whom are undergraduates except for a lonely college professor...
...play it, polo might be the U. S. national pastime. As it is, a generous estimate would put the total number of U. S. poloists at 5,000. Of the 5,000- because at least half the responsibility in polo is the pony's, and a good string, properly equipped, costs $25,000-all but some 500 play a variety of polo which compares to what was going on on Long Island last week as one-o'-cat compares to the World Series. Poloists who belong to clubs which belong to the U. S. Polo Association receive handicaps...
...away. That was about the only time she ever bowed to public opinion. She traveled abroad more than anyone else in Boston, bought more dazzling gowns, had more servants and footmen, consorted with actors, artists, musicians, acquired matched pearls by the pint and wore one string around her waist. Once, asked for a subscription to the Charitable Eye & Ear Infirmary, she replied that she had not known there was a charitable eye or ear in Boston. She drank beer at "Pop" concerts at Symphony Hall when ladies were furtively sipping sherry in the parlor. She walked down Tremont Street with...
...Wind & String instruments in Chicago last week included a $1,000 accordion, a six-foot "bassoguitar" and cellos equipped with loudspeaker horns. Oldest & biggest band instrument maker is 62-year-old C. G. Conn, Ltd., which reports business currently running 35% ahead of a year ago, has 1,000 men at work in its Elkhart, Ind. plant. As with other makers in the same line, the saxophone is still Conn's biggest seller. Also in Elkhart is big Martin Band Instrument Co., whose founder walked there after being burned out in the Chicago fire...