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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennington Press. The hot volume, co-authored by Chicago Newsman Ray Brennan, is chiefly devoted to protesting Touhy's innocence of the wacky 1933 kidnaping of Swindler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a crime for which Touhy served 25 years of a 99-year stretch. The complaint against the book: it alleges that Factor committed wholesale perjury to railroad Touhy to the big house. Last week Jake the Barber, now a well-to-do Beverly Hills philanthropist, sued Pennington and seven other defendants for $3,000,000. Complaint: libel and invasion of privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...fraki (tails). But inside, clerks told disappointed shoppers that these were "future" models. All they had for sale was the familiar old line of $80 and $120 suits, featuring outmoded double-breasted jackets and bell-bottomed trousers. "A drab selection," scribbled one customer in the shop's complaint book. "No quality suits. I am shocked, filled with indignation." "Outrageous," wrote another. "Patterns bad, workmanship careless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Appalling Apollos | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...complaint from Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, who said after a tour of Latin America that the U.S. appoints too many do-nothing committees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Headlines at Last | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Petard. In Lockport, N.Y., police got a complaint that Walnut Street was a haven for speeders, set up a radar check point, nabbed speeding Mrs. Jeanne E. Spaulding, the complainant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Handsome Profits. The one complaint that Aussies have about foreign capital is the lack of opportunity for local participation in the new companies. Only about 40 of the U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries are publicly owned, and of these only eleven have some degree of Australian ownership. But the Aussie who invests in a domestic company can make handsome profits on his own. In a land that is turning out its own diesel engines, railroad cars, jet aircraft and transistor radios, stocks are an investor's dream. Ansett Transport Industries, Clyde Industries (engineering), Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Boom in Australia | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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