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...cheated, stalked down the third partner and shot him dead. When Soderman got out of jail, he phoned Hilton and asked to see him. Fearing that he was next on the list, Hilton told Soderman to come to his office-and laid his Army automatic in an open desk drawer. Soderman came, but nothing happened. Says Hilton: "I never did find out why he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...diamond ring would be nice too" according to several of the women around Harvard, but they also like pins, fancy handkerchiefs, bracelets and chokers. A girl who is amply supplied with these decorations can use a jewelry case, and would be particularly impressed with one with a sliding drawer and initials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Handy Shoppers' Guide Tells What to Buy for Him Her | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

After lending Henry Kaiser $34.4 million only a month ago, the RFC last week opened its cash drawer and plunked out another $10 million to its great & good friend. The earlier loan was to help Kaiser-Frazer bring out a low-priced car by next spring to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. The second loan was to permit K-F to finance its dealers' purchases of cars from the factory, because K-F dealers had trouble getting loans from private banks. All told, RFC has loaned K-F almost as much as the company raised in stock sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: More Cash for Kaiser | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...three days 54-year-old René Mayer, last week's unsuccessful premier-designate, did not eat a decent meal. From morning until late at night he conferred hectically with party leaders. At intervals he replenished his energies with crackers and chocolate bars from a desk drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crackers & Chocolate | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...tickets were on top of a pile of old bank statements. 33 MM 4, 33 MM5. Vag had waited more than two hours to get them. Something rattled when he closed the drawer again, and Vag remembered the bottle. He had bought that too. He gingerly reopened the drawer, withdrew the bottle from behind the pile of checks. The contents smelled familiar and unpleasant and Vag felt the first tentative swallow catch in his throat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

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