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...been on the other side, Wade replied that he would not have risked all in an attempt to prove Ruby insane. "I would have tried to go for leniency," he said. Many lawyers agreed that Belli blundered in putting all the defense's eggs in the insanity basket. "If I had been in Belli's place," said District of Columbia Criminal Lawyer. Myron Ehrlich, "I would have been more concerned about the jury's reaction to Ruby. I learned long ago that jurors damn seldom acquit on grounds of insanity unless there is a great deal...
Died. Thomas Winston Briggs, 77, founder and president of Welcome Wagon International, who in 1928, out of "a desire to contribute to human happiness," first set Welcome Wagon hostesses to dropping in on newcomers in town with baskets of gifts from local merchants, a system so beneficial to trade that Briggs extended the system to 2,000 U.S. and Canadian cities, collected fees from merchants (at $10 to $30 a basket) that in the last decade alone came to well over $100 million; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...employ the strategy which had throttled the Crimson at New Haven last month They positioned two guards and a forward near the mid-court stripe and froze the ball until Harvard was forced into a man-to-man defense. Then the Elis would take turns running in toward the basket until one of them could shake off his defender, take a pass, and make an easy layup...
...working executive whose In basket never seems to be empty, one practical rule of thumb is that anything mailed to him free is probably not worth reading. But there is one giveaway magazine that has sought, with mild success, to be an exception. In seven years, News Front, which calls itself "management's news magazine," has at least gained entree to some of the most influential In baskets in the U.S. Among its 92,000 nonpaying recipients are the presidents and key officers of the country's 7,500 largest companies, the Governors of all 50 states...
...keeps his subscriber list pure, firmly turns down unqualified junior executives who are eager to get a free subscription for the prestige it may confer. This, as much as News Front's content, may explain why business leaders seem willing to let the magazine drop in their In basket each month. Every year, Publisher Ward asks his subscribers, by mail, if they want News Front to keep coming. All but 3% of them...