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...from the steam room next door to Chicago's Crime Commission, where he conducts his business over an ivory-handled telephone with a towel around his sagging middle. Charlie Fischetti could be found neither at his Miami estate, nor in Manhattan's Stork Club, nor in the duplex penthouse atop 3100 North Sheridan...
...they were Tunner's assistants, did not have an easy time of it. With Combat Cargo Command, as with all his other operations, Tunner worked 14 to 16 hours a day, pushed his subordinates to the limit. Along with his staff, Tunner moved into a stucco and plywood duplex house on the air base. In the evenings he brought work home and labored far into the night, frequently calling staff members in for consultation or for rawhiding rebuke. Ruefully, the staff christened their quarters "Soreprat-by-the-sea." Said one staff officer last week: "There are just two things...
Acta's lead articles usually retell the stories of such noble correspondents as Caesar and Cicero. But like any enterprising newspaper, Acta prints a good deal more than spot news. There are such circulation boosters as Poppaedius the Sailorman, an Acrostichis Duplex (double acrostic), an Aenigma Verbale (crossword puzzle), and occasionally something that looks like an ad. ("Putabat to gam suam candidam esse!" snorts one Senator about another, in apparent anticipation of the 20th Century catch line of Britain's Persil soap powder, "I thought my shirt was white...
Died. Jacques Stern, 67, French banker and onetime Radical-Socialist cabinet minister (Merchant Marine, Colonies) and under secretary (Navy); in a plunge from his ninth-floor Park Avenue duplex in Manhattan...
...snorkel was devised by Manhattan's Duplex Electric Co., which has also installed two others (at the American National Bank of Portsmouth, Va. and St. Louis' Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co.). Colorado State Bank's President B. F. Clark, 89, plunked down $4,000 to get one, spent another $4,000 excavating Teller Gibson's cage. By last week, the snorkel had proved so popular that some 85 customers a day were using...