Boxoffice-March.06.1948

MINNEAPOLIS
11 be Kaplan, Northwest Variety Club treasurer,
in an interview over radio station
WDGY told of the Lakers' basketball game
at the Auditorium here March 14 for the
benefit of the club's University of Minnesota
hospital fund. He explained that the club
already has raised $300,000 for the hospital
and turned it over to the university, but that
additional sums are needed. Construction of
the 80-bed hospital will start in April, he
said. The club was host at a luncheon for
sports writers, who heard LeRoy J. Miller
and Ted Bolnick explain the benefit, and
who promised their full cooperation in helping
to make it a success.
Branch managers nere were guests of the
University of Minnesota at a campus luncheon,
where their help was solicited for the
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