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...bawling subway guards. One muggy morning last week, Subway Guard Matthew Walsh spied Commuter Brooks on the crowd fringe, got behind him, shoved him mightily between the closing doors of a subway car. It was all suddenly too much for Commuter Brooks. Wheeling, he smacked Guard Walsh a lusty bust smack on the nose. Arrested, given a suspended sentence, he said: ". . . I'd do it again. . . . But even so small a crime . . . does not pay," hurried off to catch a downtown subway train...
Last weekend, over a 27-station MBS eastern hookup, audiences heard a newsy newcomer in radio programs-a weekly behind-scenes news and feature "column" entitled Confidentially Yours. In its first network broadcast, Confidentially Yours had a lot to say that was not particularly confidential about the Hore-Belisha bust-up in Britain, about the Duchess of Windsor's untenanted officers' hospital in France. But it did tell audiences, in the area in which most U. S. Jews are concentrated, a likely item of Jewish news: "One of the largest armies in the modern history of the Jewish...
...their stockholders the two firms proposed that they would merge. Reason: to make their cooperative enterprise permanent, remove any possibility of a bust-up. The deal: 1) Melville to acquire all of McElwain's outstanding 16,966 7% preferred and 104,726 common shares; 2) Melville stockholders to submit to reclassification of their 99,992 6% preferred, 404,722 common shares, take shares of the new company in return...
Wisconsin's Governor Julius Peter ("Julius the Bust") Heil, who has not made a notable success of governing his own State, astonished the nation by implicitly criticizing his neighbor, Michigan's good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson. Referring to the Chrysler automobile workers' strike, Governor Heil declared: "You've got to use strong methods. I would like to be the Governor of Michigan today...
Less pleased was she by another wellwisher, who offered to buy one of the casualties, a slightly damaged bust of Lucretia Mott, for his rock garden, twine a vine over its missing ear. "Of all the insolence!" sniffed Mrs. Johnson. "Can you imagine my Lucretia in a rock garden...