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Papa Miller began buying stocks, hoping that some day he would have something substantial to leave behind. He bought solely on intuition-shares in Southern Union Gas Co. (he happened to believe in natural gas), Pickering Lumber Corp. and Brink's. Inc. He bought some 12,000 shares of the American Furniture Mart Building Co. of Chicago, watched it climb from 37 to $12.50. By the time he died in 1951, he was the wonder of his brokers. "The old gentleman knew nothing about stocks," said one. "He bought what we call undervalued situations-a company which for some...
Before Bulldog quarterback Bob Brink could even fade back, Bill Meigs and Weber were on top of him, and the Elis were four yards further away from a touchdown, with one play left...
Timmy Anderson, who doubles as a wrestler in the off season, and another standout all day and all fall, hurtled through caught the fading Brink and wrestled and pinned him back for a six yard loss, taking the ball away from him. While Culolias did an Indian dance around the referees, Harvard took over the ball and the ball game...
...Martin field goal capped the power running of Royce Flippin and Homer Smith to give Princeton a 17-0 halftime lead. But Yale's Pruet, Brink, Shears, and Corelli ground the Tiger's lead down to three points before Lopez put the Blue ahead with a 20-yard...
...River Street (United Artists) retells the surefire old story of the worm who turns. Cabdriver John Payne is an ex-pug who gets his first brass-knuckle treatment from fate when an eye injury ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before...