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...clinching the Empire State deal, Stevens did not forget his old knack of picking up finder's fees. He not only acted as principal, but as one of the three brokers, stood to collect $166,000 for himself in broker's fees. Says hardheaded Roger Stevens: "We didn't buy it because it's the world's tallest building but because it looked like a cheap piece of real estate...
Nobody expects a cardinal to be able to write a great novel, and The Foundling leaves that solid assumption undisturbed. The foundling of Cardinal Spellman's story turns up in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral shortly after World War I. The finder is a disfigured, heartsick war veteran named Paul Taggart. He wants to adopt the infant boy, but the boy has been born to a Roman Catholic mother and Taggart is a Protestant. Taggart settles for a lifetime devotion to the youngster, beginning with visits to see him in a Catholic orphanage...
...FISH-FINDER. Bendix Aviation Corp. last week announced a 15-lb. electronic fish-finder. Similar to larger models used by commercial fishermen, Bendix's cigar-box-size sonar helps pleasure boats find fish by bouncing high-frequency sound signals off the ocean floor, recording objects denser than water. Price...
When the 250-ton fishing boat Barnegat put out of Beaufort, N.C. for the menhaden*grounds one morning last winter, she carried some visitors who had never made the trip before. They were Bendix engineers, on board to check on the Barnegat's electronic "fish-finder." The reports from the finder came through just fine and the boat closed on a big school of fish. Then, as the Barnegat's 20 fishermen began to haul in their first good catch of the day, the engineers heard something that made them look up from their graphs in wonder...
Peter W. Rand '51 of Eliot House dropped a message-laden bottle overboard last summer while on a cruise in the Arctic Ocean, and it turned up April 22 on a Scottish beach. Rand received the message and a letter last week from the finder--John MacIntyre of South Uist, Lochboisdale, in the Outer Hebrides...