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...magazeen time you sint me that my old friend george curry is dead (April 25). I wish you wood write them a letter and fix it up in nice and proper language and tell them he aint dead no more than you or me. It was some other old timer in Hillsboro that died. One of them there newspaper fellers called the sheriff at Hillsboro by long distance and the sheriff could not here good and this hear newspaper feller thought he said George was dead. Anyways he aint. He's alive and well at his home...
Epicurean delights during the football season are usually rather rare. Thrills of the grandstand, the bands, the crowds, to the old-timer begin to lose their glamour after a succession of years. But occasionally the powers that be introduce a spectacle that causes the 'ardents', and who isn't, to sigh contentedly much the same way that the lover of the inner linings of his constitution sighs for his special cheese or fish paste...
...Edison has never flown but "might try it sometime with an old-timer who would not stunt." For stunting he sees no justification, "can't believe that it is as necessary as it is dangerous. If I had my way it would be barred." Suspicious, he would not even enter the cabin of an amphibian at Newark Airport to examine the controls on the ground...
...member houses then open. Meanwhile from the offices of nonLeague producers and "outlaw" brokers issued rumblings of war. ''Blacklist . . . conspiracy!" hissed Legshowman George White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton...