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...With loans and his skimpy earnings as a young attorney, he bought Bronx apartments at Depression prices, later cashed in on World War II's real estate boom. Typical Chalk deal: in 1942 he bought the 16-story apartment house at 1010 Fifth Avenue (corner of 82nd Street) for $1,000,000, putting up considerably less of his own cash. It is now worth upwards of $4,000,000, and Roy Chalk lives there, has built a suburban-style ranch house on the roof for his daughter's family...
...Which last week became the 82nd nation...
...belated birth announcements last week of an integrated 150,000-man force, set up to handle small war situations ranging from street riots to a second Korea. Name of force: Strategic Army Corps, or STRAC. Motto: Skilled, Tough. Ready Around the Clock. Composition of force: paratroops of the 82nd and 101st Airborne
...week of his 82nd birthday, but Pope Pius XII was in no mood to celebrate. For days he fumed and brooded in his chambers. Then Osservatore Romano curtly announced that because of "the bitterness, sorrow and outrage in Italy," His Holiness had canceled the festivities that were to mark the 19th anniversary of his coronation. Finally, the Vatican lashed out at the culprits who had aroused its fury: it excommunicated the three Florentine judges who had convicted the Bishop of Prato of criminal defamation for having called the civil marriage of a local couple "scandalous concubinage" (TIME, March...
When they rummage through clues to their past, future anthropologists may find no more intriguing tribal customs than those practiced at the 82nd Westminster Kennel Club dog show, the two-day rite that packed Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week with 2,500 dogs and 40,000 humans...