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...Cleveland, police arrested for violation of the liquor law Negro Barner Barry, 37, 493 lb., waistline, 66 in. shaped like a hogshead because "I drink good beer." They found him too fat to wedge into the police car. They called a patrol-wagon, budged him in with difficulty, shoehorned him through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...
...44th Groton-St. Mark's game; St. Mark's won, with a triple pass for a touchdown in the last five minutes, 7 to 0, for the first time since 1928. The winning team was rewarded by being hauled about Southboro, Mass, in an old wagon...
Fifty thousand dollars means 600,000 pesetas to Vicente Escudero-a fabulous amount to one who was born in a gypsy wagon, helped his parents peddle laces and thread, clicked out his first dancing steps on manhole tops. In his early days Escudero's tricks were not confined to his dancing. He rarely had money to pay his hotel bills, so he would throw his mattress out the window before the proprietor was up in the morning, jump for it and disappear. He was arrested once at a bullfight for squeezing the juice of an orange at a fellow...
...wagon business was dropped and Mr. Erskine, accountant-trained, began cutting down inventories. The result was that the company was not affected by the deflation of 1921, a managerial feat mentioned in many a text book. Studebaker engineers point with pride to the adoption of free-wheeling in 1930, the first convertible top (1924), full power mufflers (which increase horse-power), 90% elimination of motor roar by a carburetor silencer, ball-bearing spring shackles, hydrostatic gas gauges. Figure-wise Mr. Erskine last spring saw that the plants were overvalued, ordered a $16,000,000 writedown (TIME, April 4). Like many...
Like its journalistic forbear. Ballyhoo concentrates on kidding advertisements. When Comedian Howard is chief concentrator, it is funny. There are few good tunes (one of them: "While We Have Bromo Seltzer in Our Love Nest") to make Ballyhoo another Band Wagon, which it tries hard...