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...plaintiffs, Abraham Woll 1G, and Research Fellows in Medicine Dr. Charles S. Wise, Dr. Martin Perimutter, and Dr. Andrei de Vries claim that the Riverside Hotel not only assessed illegal rental overcharges in the past year, but also allegedly refused both to change daily rates to a cheaper monthly basis and to return sums of money deposited as security...
...Stephen Erleigh was in a hurry to make a million pounds, then quit. Said Norby Erleigh: "I think it could be done swiftest in South Africa." A wealthy Rand pioneer's son, Erleigh had the financial backing; he soon picked up the mining experience. In 1933, he helped Abraham Sundel Hersov form the Anglo-Transvaal Investment Co., Ltd., and together they made a killing in Rand mines. But "Bob" Hersov was too cautious for bumptious, erratic Norby Erleigh. By 1935 Erleigh, then 32, had broken away from Anglovaal, and he had made his first million. He had also lost...
...dimensions of those enjoyed at most wealthy universities. Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Paleograplier Elias Avery Lowe won additional windows to help him avert eyestrain while deciphering ancient texts. It was not like this under the tenure of first director Abraham Flexner--in the Institute's three pioneer years--when the Princeton Mathematics Department turned over Fine Hall for the new project...
...Bengal, worshipers of the goddess Durga will celebrate her festival with clay images and ceremonial parades. Durga is the good side of the same ambivalent goddess of which Kali is the evil face.* In this same week Moslems will celebrate Id-el-Atha, their version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Usually they sacrifice cows, but this week many, lest the Hindus be offended, plan again to sacrifice sheep.† Even so, the two coincident festivals might touch off killing in Bengal, which, along with Bihar and the United Provinces, is considered the next great danger spot...
This rather conventional story, shaded with stout "socially conscious" sentiments against commercial ruthlessness, is turned into an unusual movie by Abraham Polansky's taut continuity and sharp dialogue, by Robert Rossen's solid directing, and by Cameraman James Wong Howe's vivid shots of fighting. A good deal of the picture has the cruelly redolent illusion of reality that distinguished many of the movies of low life made in the early...