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...Julie, Cry Terror!), is a shipboard scare-show that will probably make a good many customers queasy-some because they cannot stand the sight of so much blood, others because they like their terror firmer. The story begins aboard a greasy old freighter when one of the hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship as salvage. With the help of a misanthropic messmate, he actually makes a good start on this project...
RANKING up with Partners Goren and Sobel in the Big Four of U.S. bridge-as judged by master points piled up in American Contract Bridge League tournaments -are Sidney Silodor (4,479½) and John Randolph Crawford (4,383), longtime teammates with radically different bridge-table styles. Philadelphian Silodor, 51, who makes a comfortable income as a society bridge teacher, is perhaps the slowest player in top-level bridge, infuriates opponents with long spells of fierce, immobile concentration. Suave, dapper New Yorker Crawford, 43, Main Line Philadelphian by origin (he claims to be the only bridge master in the Social...
Right alongside Silodor and Crawford, in the judgment of top bridge players, are Howard Schenken and Alvin Roth, both of whom have missed master point opportunities by staying away from many tournaments. New Yorker Schenken, 54, was already renowned in the bridge world back in the early 1930s, has steadily maintained a reputation among the experts as one of the very greatest players, though he stands only twelfth in master points (2,919) and makes his living as a travel agent instead of a fulltime bridge pro. A recent recruit to Charles Goren's team, Schenken is a highly...
...also: Crawford) who are on their way to a Paris convention next month.
Object: to bring future political leaders of the NATO countries face to
face while they are still in their intellectually formative years.
Beamed Ike: "Splendid idea."
...that would cost Du Pont stockholders millions. IRS ruled that the G.M. stock, if distributed, would be taxable at ordinary income rates when received. If the stock was sold, any profit would be taxed again either as straight income or capital gains. For individual Du Pont stockholders, said President Crawford Greenewalt, income taxes alone would come to an estimated $580 million, plus another $100 million for corporations owning the stock. Moreover, so many shares would be dumped on the market that the market could not absorb them without depressing stock values in the two companies by as much...