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...failed to materialize. Denver is such a case. Any new transcontinental line through Denver would compete with United and TWA. Any extension by United or TWA into Denver would compete with Wyoming Air or Varney, which now have all the traffic. Result: a stymie. United reluctantly began to dicker with Wyoming Air to buy its run between Cheyenne and Denver. Last week these negotiations had been dropped, for another solution presented itself...
Yesterday, Wes Fesler wasn't planning to make any changes in the starting lineup with which he will welcome the Ells, though if the team hasn't gotten over their sloppiness, Dicker Grondahl and Dick Wills will probably see a lot of service. But there is little doubt that the Crimson will show the Blue team an exhibition of the best playing they've done all year. Harvard usually does that when they face Yale...
Most ambitious of these originated with the National Association of Manufacturers, which has been fuming about attacks on Business for years. NAM's present head. Board Chairman Colby dicker of General Foods, has been exhorting his colleagues to tell their side of the story ever since he took office last winter. In Chicago last month NAM finally decided to try a series of advertisements prepared free of charge by Lord & Thomas...
...Moses Louis Annenberg heard last month that the Philadelphia Inquirer could be purchased by anyone who had a desire to own a large morning newspaper and $15,000,000 in cash. Mr. Annenberg had both. Forthwith he sent one of the five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit Journal. Last week the deal went through. From his modest Manhattan offices, Purchaser...
Actually, charged popular, three-time Charterite Mayor Russell Wilson, the reward demanded by Councilman Bigelow for supporting the charter was three important city jobs for his friends. Rather than pay that price, Chartermen would apparently dicker with the Republicans. Meantime, Councilman Bigelow blithely observed: "Perhaps we may never get a Mayor. What's the difference? A Mayor is only a ceremonial figure, a sort of political parsley to adorn ceremonial dinners. Why shouldn't the Councilmen take turns at this sort of punishment, eating meals without money and making speeches without meaning...