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Solid, spectacled "Tommy" Holcomb announced briefly this week that he was retiring as head of the Marine Corps, seven years to the day after he took com mand. His successor: 56-year-old Lieut...
...Nowhere. On a balance-sheet basis, M. & St. L.'s bondholders got mostly a $53.000,000 deficit (the water logged stockholders were washed out com pletely). But for the future they got all the stock (150,000 shares) in an almost debt-free road. And they got Lucian Charles Sprague, M. & St. L.'s receiver for eight years, as president...
...large bedroom of St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, a thin-haired little man who looks like a timid clerk last week shot com mands at eight tired businessmen. "Little Bill" Miller, probably the country's foremost relaxation expert, was holding class-at $100 a head for six one-hour lessons...
...next day poor A.J. lost his garrison cap, just before visual com., and asked Ensign L.N. Wires to announce the loss over the loud speaker. There was no response. A.J. later found the cap in his belt...
...Wells- Knopf ($2). The enigmatical death of a rich man, who had carefully planned a suicide that would later send his hated cousin to a murderer's end, is cannily cleared up by quietly effective Miss Pomeroy, trained nurse turned detective - and a sterling addition to the slim com pany of believable female sleuths. Extra good writing and well-sustained suspense outweigh a certain terminal haziness...