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...Frank F. Elliott, 62, advanced from senior vice president to president and chief executive officer of Crane Co.. one of the top U.S. makers of bathroom fixtures, to succeed John L. Holloway, who resigned because of poor health. Elliott joined Crane 33 years ago in Los Angeles, moved up to branch manager, to Western district manager, to vice president for all sales. President Elliott's first objective: halt Crane's three-year decline in sales and profits (1954 net: $5,800,000 v. $8,700,000 in 1953, $16,200,000 in 1951). To do this...
...Cover) The sharp, rhythmic tattoo of a fast buck and wing ricocheted off the tile floor of a Sacramento bathroom one day last week, and echoed through the door. Visitors in the adjoining suite of offices heard distinctly the merry foot-tapping and understood the message it telegraphed: The governor of California was happy...
...Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November for clouting his fifth wife, sometime Actress Kay Williams, with her jeweled slipper): "Indecent assault and battery" while he and Georgia were fellow hospital patients, with a connecting bathroom, last December. After bursting into her room in a smock so scanty that "he was exposed in both directions," testified Georgia, Sugar Daddy Spreckels wrestled with her lustily and then, outnumbered by three nurses, leaped atop an unoccupied bed and bellowed defiantly: "I'm going to stay in the room with...
...fourth floor of Thayer Hall, two adjoining suites of rooms house two freshmen apiece. The suites are identical in very way: both have one bedroom and one living room, both are the same size, both are the same distance from the stairway and from the communal bathroom. Since rooms in the Yard are supposedly priced according to their desirability, one might assume that the rents for these two suites are equal. But the freshmen living in one are paying $185 per term, while the residents of the other pay only...
...dispel the confusion over rents. There has never been a complete re-assessment of all rooms in the Yard. NO one knows when the current prices were set or exactly how they were determined. According to the Department of Buildings and Grounds, such factors as size, floor, and bathroom facilities were probably among the original criteria. But the Department admits that there is no standard system for applying these criteria. In addition, the price of a given room depends on such factors as the view, which may have changed appreciably since the dormitory was built...