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Gnarled, dimple-chinned Fred Mitchell, 45, was watching his sheep with a crook and a sharp-muzzled sheep dog one clear, shriveling-cold January night at the Home Farm outside Abbots Leigh village near Bristol. The sirens screamed at 5 o'clock, and Shepherd Mitchell was immediately surrounded by a blaze of 20th-century horror. Incendiaries fired his straw-and-wattle lambing pens, sheltering 34 ewes and lambs. High explosives followed the incendiaries and scared the wits out of the sheep dog, who promptly went A.W.O.L. for 24 hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near...
Another wreath belonged on the grave of F. Donald Coster. For although he milked McKesson of almost $3,000.000, Mr. Coster, a dynamic and farseeing businessman as well as a crook, had gathered for the purpose a herd of very sturdy cows. Less than 5% of McKesson business comes from its own branded drugs, vulnerable to the scandalous publicity. Most of the rest is a distributing business, which wholesales some 48,000 different items, from alarm clocks to Coca-Cola syrup, to some 30,000 independent drugstores throughout...
Long after the Army had adopted the Garand, the Marines held off, sticking by the tried-&-true Springfield rifle until they could crook their fingers around a suitable semiautomatic. Last November and December the Marines tested four guns: the Springfield; a revamped, improved version of the Army's Garand; Boston Inventor Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr.'s rival semiautomatic; and a new Winchester semiautomatic. Last week the Marine Corps delighted the Army's ordnance officers by officially adopting the Garand as the Corps's standard rifle. Captain Johnson himself (now reasonably content with...
...rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would be calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature. Proud of his job, he says expansively: "It is like being the city editor of the whole goddam world...
...HOOK OR CROOK-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). Good, conventional English slaughter in Devon, where old tin mines look like the money motive and Bunter's Pond the mortuary. Detective: the gentlemanly Philip Tolefree...