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...article, which had already been circulating on Wall Street, the Big Board's bosses decided it would be unwise to expose the shares to the uncertainty that the article could cause. Columbia's stock, which had sold at a high of 20? last December, was down to 14??? last Thursday in the wake of the scandal involving David Begelman, 56, the former president of its film and television divisions; the shares had fallen another point on Thursday, in anticipation of the Times article. Begelman, after admitting to embezzling more than $60,000 from the studio, was suspended from...
More kith and kin gathered. The three eldest children?Kathleen, 16, Joseph, 15, and Robert, 14???were allowed to see their father. Andy Williams, George Plimpton, Rafer Johnson and others peeked in. The even rise and fall of the patient's chest offered some reassurance; the blackened eyes and the pallor of cheeks that had been healthy and tanned a few hours before were frightening...
...wheat." Last week wheat was $1.15 and the new watchword was "dollar corn." Rubber, which sold as low as 3¢ per lb. in 1933, was up last week to a four-year high of 17¢. Silk on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange had the busiest day in months. Cotton hit 14?? per lb. for the first time since 1930. With few exceptions the raw "things" which the U. S. finds essential to its well-being were in high speculative favor. The number of citizens eager to swap dollars for salable goods was growing at an astounding rate...
...records for cold were broken in New England where temperatures as low as ?56° were reported. In Boston it went to ?18°, in Manhattan to ?14??, in Philadelphia to ?11°. Florida had snow and hail (which killed two cows). Dwellers on islands off the North Atlantic coast were icebound and had to be fed by airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4° at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth...
...Sept. 14???Stock subscription books are opened to raise...