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...stamps" and of substituting something more usual if they proved unpopular. In rushed hordes of the King's subjects and bought hand-over-fist some 30,000,000 Edwards. After this not even the crustiest oldster could well call the new King's stamp decision wrong...
...night last week, a non-paying audience at the Great Lakes Exposition beheld José Iturbi mount the podium for the first of six scheduled concerts with the Great Lakes Symphony. When the last number of the program was about to begin the audience became aware that something was wrong on the stage, and for nine minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall, who asked what...
Five strokes (letters or spaces) counted as a "word" regardless of the actual words of the text. But a wrong letter, a space in the wrong place, a wrong indention, a wrong punctuation mark, was an error that cost a ten "word" penalty against the total score...
Ignorantly into Utah wandered Virgil Goodwin, campaigning for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State in Idaho. After spending half a day making speeches, passing out cards, Candidate Goodwin discovered he was in the wrong State, went back to Idaho, was defeated...
...watched the Japanese. Skinny Csik watched no one, kept on swimming. When the race was over, Fick and the Japanese stopped looking at each other, looked at Csik. He was the winner. Said Swimmer Fick to Swimmer Csik: "It's good I got third, at least." He was wrong again. In the confusion at the finish, judges had, perhaps erroneously, placed Fick sixth, behind not only Yusa, Arai and Taguchi but even German Helmuth Fischer...