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...Friend. Witness Ross Bohannon took the stand. A Texas lawyer, he testified that in trying to get an RFC loan for the Texmass Petroleum Co. in 1949, he talked with Merl Young. Young, he swore, offered to help in return for a fee of $10,000 cash-plus $7,500 a year for the next ten years. Young denied the story, said it was Bohannon who had talked about a big fee, and declared that he hadn't even been tempted. New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey intervened...
...band members are: Dallas L. Corser, Oscar H. Will, Karl L. Zener, and David S. Feingold, clarinets; Charles S. Lipson, Murray K. Rosenthal, and Richard A. Bohannon, trumpets; Richard C. Hermann and Peter D. Hardy, trombones; Frederick L. Hall, tuba; Stewart G. Levine, French horn; Theodore H. Johnson, baritone horn; Quincy A. Sanders, saxaphone; Peter Strauss, piccolo; and Cacciotti, conductor...
...half the new houses constructed were custom-built, and the new owner consequently had a 50-50 chance to express his own ideas about the practical art of housing himself and his family. Today, such speculative merchant-builders as the David D. Bohannon Organization, which is putting up thousands of moderately priced houses around San Francisco, and the traditional but gadgety Gerholz Community Homes in Flint, Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long...
...includes many peacetime instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
Motormakers and motorsellers last week discussed a suggestion offered in the Automotive Daily News by President James A. Bohannon of Peerless. The plan: an intensive drive to sell new cars to people directly or indirectly dependent on the automobile industry, thus start the public also buying, start business booming. Most dealers, sales off, approved...