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...poor. But most effective, both to Scrooge and the audience, is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come who never speaks but just points to Scrooge's old love (now working in a poor house), to Bob Crachit's family (mourning the death of Tiny Tim), and to the clincher--Scrooge's own grave. Here again we sense Dickens' suggestion that the strongest argument of all is still survival...
Last week Snow Crop took a drastic step to end some of its risks. It sold all its Florida processing plants (concentrated-juice capacity 14 million gallons a year) for $11 million to a growers' cooperative, the Florida Citrus Exchange. As a clincher, Snow Crop's boss, 60-year-old Charles W. Metcalf, quit his job and took over as manager of the concentrate operations. Under the deal, Snow Crop was assured of a constant supply of juice and hoped that most of its worries about gyrating orange prices would be solved...
...Stork Club before the Baker incident occurred. Cried Winchell: "I am appalled at the agony and embarrassment caused Josephine Baker and her friends at the Stork Club. But I am equally appalled at their efforts to involve me in an incident in which I had no part." As a clincher, he added a letter from Walter White himself, doubting that Winchell "would be a party to any insult to human dignity...
Hoffman scored the first freshman touchdown on a brilliant 60-yard run off his own left tackle mid-way through the first period. Moll got the clincher on a 28-yard third period run. Al Rossow added the two extra points...
...clincher came a few seconds later when Jim Joslyn intercepted a Crimson pass on the 50 and ran the ball all the way to the 13 yard line before McDonald finally pulled him down. Two plays later Nick Dion ran nine yards through tackle for the score. Not a linebacker was within' ten yards...