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...hind legs, smoothed its scales, and smilingly queried, "May we trace the books and send you a card?" The spider could no better entice the fly. "Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast has never sent him a card. Some thirty times our tutor has baited it, but the prey eludes the trap. Mournfully we suspect that somewhere in Widener even now there is a modified Jonah who has been prowling around the bowels of the Beast for three years, encouraged...
...dither last month were San Francisco financial circles over the well-authenticated report that potent Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini had testily refused to list a new issue of Transamerica Corp. stock on the San Francisco Exchange until benign President Frank Shaughnessy resigned (TIME, Aug. 16). Since Transamerica for years had been the busiest stock on the San Francisco Exchange, this gave brokers, already scratching for commissions, a real matter for worry. The squabble grew out of old "A. P.'s" decision to turn Transamerica, once the world's largest bank holding company, into an investment trust. One move...
...attendance to be even better this year. So far, morning and evening crowds at Sunday auditorium services have averaged 4,000. According to Joseph A. Thoma, 39-Year-old city manager of Ocean Grove, who was born in nearby Long Branch and grew up under Ocean Grove's benign influence, the community is operating on a 100% cash basis, with funds in hand for building new jetties on the beach and completing hard-surfacing of its streets, and $35,000 per year net coming in regularly from assessments...
...bacteriologists of the National Institute of Health announced that this astounding new drug seemed to be a cure for an entirely separate class of diseases, namely, those caused by viruses. Among virus diseases are the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis, parrot fever. Another disease due to a virus is "benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis," which was recognized as a distinct ailment only a few years ago because almost anything may cause its chief symptoms (headache, vomiting, slight fever). From a case of this lymphocytic choriomeningitis. Dr. Charles Armstrong and associates of the National Institute of Health acquired a virus with which they...
...precept which black, benign Major J. ("Father") Divine, Harlem cultist, enjoins upon his followers is that all stolen goods should be returned to their rightful owners, all old debts be paid to creditors. Since Father Divine attained a following many a U. S. merchant, especially in the South, has testified that many a black man's long-forgotten debt has indeed been liquidated. In Harlem last week one Famaca Real, a Divine follower, took pen & paper, laboriously composed a letter. She had once purchased goods on credit in Pittsfield, Mass., could no longer recall the merchant's name...