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...Emmett Jones, also 14, lived near by. A seventh-grader with big ears, a cap worn on the back of his head and the puffed-out cheeks of adolescence, he had never been in trouble either...
Mark Twain has given U. S. citizens some idea of the wild rages, desperate plans, fearsome revenges that seethe behind the impassive, Indianlike features of 14-year-old boys. Last week New Jersey citizens were reminded again. First William and Emmett broke into a garage. An eight-year-old kid who had tagged along with them was spotted by a cop, who fired in the air and captured the kid; William and Emmett ducked through the back streets, until they came to a parked car with the keys in it. They stole it. They had never driven, but William...
...GOOSE IS COOKED-Emmett Hogarth-Simon & Schuster ($2). Extravaganza in an electrical engineer's laboratory: the first corpse is only charred around the wrists; the second "looks like Al Jolson singing 'Mammy.' " The solution is by Marty Cohen, a law-school cop who knows no watts but is a hard, bright New Yorker going places...
...cooling period that must by law elapse between the registration and sale of any new security. During the 20 days, underwriters and dealers chew their nails, hark nervously for stop orders, sometimes watch a good market turn into a bad one (leaving them holding the bag). When Emmett ("Spike") Connely became president of the Investment Bankers Association last year and declared open war on the Securities Acts, the 20-day clause was his first objective...
...permission to consolidate over 20 Atlantic seaboard trucking firms (employes 30,000; total '39 gross, $40,000.000) into one $25.000,000 firm. The deal: Transport Co. to buy the truckers for about 75% cash, balance in common & preferred stock of the new company. ∧ Be-goggled Detroiter Emmett Francis ("Spike") Connely, head of First of Michigan Corp., became first paid president of conservative Investment Bankers Association. Rumored maximum salary: $40,000 a year. He authored and will promote I. B. A.'s new publicity program, tell the public that New Deal business regulation is hurting business, not helping...