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After more testimony on five other Fernel nostrums (among them: Fernel's Nerve and Brain Food, which Northwestern's Professor A. J. Carlson said "would have no more effect than a fly speck on the Wrigley Building," the Court found the defendant guilty on seven counts, sentenced him to a $500 fine and a year in prison on each count, to be served concurrently. For Jean Paul Fernel, who once skipped bail in Detroit when charged with having his patients' clothes frisked while he gave them medical examinations, this was his first conviction...
When the dream finally came true, rival club-owners rubbed their palms. Here was a rich and unwary newcomer on whom they could unload some of baseball's expensive gold bricks. They had done it when Millionaire William Wrigley Jr. bought the Cubs, when Millionaire Tom Yawkey bought...
When his chosen few - several of them plucked from Bible Institute and Sunday School teams - arrived at Chicago's Wrig ley Field fortnight ago for their "spring training," they discovered another of Mr. Wrigley's novel ideas. Part of their train ing was a compulsory course at Helena Rubinstein's Gold Coast beauty salon - to learn about makeup, posture and other whatnots usually neglected by lady athletes...
...Wrigley is starting out with only four teams, playing a circuit of war-busy towns within some 100 miles of one another: the Rockford (Ill.) Teachers, South Bend (Ind.) Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Shamrocks. They will play 108 games this summer, with a post season play-off for the championship...
Last week, in the season's opening double-header at South Bend's Bendix Stadium, the Blue Sox got off in front with two orderly victories over the Rockford Teachers. Next night, in the second doubleheader, some of the polish wore thin. Despite Helena Rubinstein and Mr. Wrigley, two of the ladies got into a fish wife argument that nearly ended in a fist fight...