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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memphis' boll-headed Boss Ed Crump told the press that he had got a note demanding $50,000 on pain of death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...
...Griffin viewed with alarm the Nieman Foundation, the Crimson (which he thought aptly named), and Author Vera Micheles Dean, for "suppressing the uglier aspects" of Communism in her course on the U.S.S.R. (The Crimson tartly pointed out that Mrs. Dean was not even teaching at Harvard; she is due to begin next month...
Melting Sugar. In New York, where trade in world sugar futures was resumed for the first time since 1941, the price fell to a low of 3.63? a lb. (Last August the world spot price had been 8.5?.) The big fall was due to prospects of a huge crop in Cuba, little buying by Europe and a 1948 U.S. import quota smaller than Cuba had hoped for. In a few months, after U.S. refiners had used up their stocks, the drop would bring down retail prices...
...horrors of examinations period more in stride nowadays, and that the haggard faces around the Yard conceal nerves that are steely. Perhaps the empty Stillman beds are indicative not of the lull before a storm, but of a basic undergraduate sturdiness, which now seems to be not entirely due to the predominance of older...
...Warner Brothers gave a better picture of the future. Warner's high profits ($22,094,000) were due chiefly to the release of pictures made as long as two years ago, when costs were lower. Said President Harry Warner: "The pictures now being released were produced at high costs . . . with the decline in domestic and foreign receipts. . . ." The decline, said Warner, was shown in the first quarter (which ended in November) of Warners' current fiscal year. Earnings were estimated at less than half of what they were in the preceding year. This was because...