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Miller declared that a few weeks before the shooting, Bolton had offered him and an associate $13,000 "to bump off Walter Reuther." They refused. A couple of days before Reuther was shot, Bolton came to Miller's home, asked for two shotguns. Bolton left with the guns, saying: "I've got to borrow the typewriters. I've got to get rid of a red-haired Communist son of a bitch...
...show is very well produced. Alfred Drake makes an excellent Soren, and in her first Broadway role, Hollywood's Marsha Hunt looks and proves delightful. Playwright Scott gets in some funny cracks and lively scuffles, and knows what Hollywood is like; but every time his findings bump up against his formula, the findings take a beating. In the end, it's the formula that takes a beating...
...Experts pondered the reasons for the break (see BUSINESS). They were not sure of what it might bring. They did not, however, believe that it was the beginning of disaster. "We haven't gone over the cliff," said a Washington economist. "We've just hit a bump in the road." Despite the fact they had taken huge paper losses in the last few days, farmers showed no sign of panic. They confidently expected prices to go up again...
...Crimson has been pulling itself up by the boot straps during the past few weeks, in preparation for the Carnival. Over-specialization, a big bump blocking Harvard ski hopes for decades in their long climb to top ski ranks, has been assuaged somewhat...
responds to faint sound waves whose power is measured in quadrillionths of a watt. "The human ear is actually so sensitive that at its best it can almost hear the individual air molecules bump against the eardrum in their random thermal flight...