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...most efficient finder of lost alumni-60,000 since 1962-is Manhattan's Tracers Company of America; alumni tracing is now the biggest part of its business. Tracers General Manager Edward Goldfader estimates that colleges could gain $20 million a year by dunning all of their lost grads. Tracers, which gets between $3 and $5 for each alumnus it finds, employs 18 people armed with U.S. telephone books, city directories, social registries, professional and business directories, even some voting lists. Thirteen field agents check local probate records...
HITCHCOCK: First of all, we have to explain the perspective of various lenses. In other words, when you look through the finder of a 50mm lens --a two-inch lens -- you see the perspective as roughly normal, as the eye sees it. Now the moment you go to a 35mm lens, the perspective begins to change, to elongate. Then you go to a 28mm. In other words, the wider the angle of lens, the more forced the perspective becomes...
...cover picture, of the killer and his pet dog, came from a roll of film in a camera found in his effects. With it was a polite note that is in itself a comment on the complexity of the problem of the psychotic in society. It asked that the finder have the film developed, and ended: "Thank you, Charles J. Whitman...
...Relations Committee investigation. Before Dodd went to Germany in April 1964, he was admittedly "anxious to do anything I could" to set Klein's record straight. Yet Dodd insisted that he did not make the trip as an "advocate or agent" for the lobbyist but as a fact finder for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Though he saw several West German officials, he said that he mentioned Klein only once, to former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and then only after Adenauer raised the subject...
...value days" or license-plate raffles are tipoffs to dealer contests that can mean better bargains for buyers. > When a customer arranges new-car credit through his dealer, the lending institution usually rebates part of the finance charges on the car back to the dealer. For his finder's fee on a three year $3,000 loan, for example, a dealer can collect as much as $180. Some dealers, especially in California, sell cars at cost or even below and make all their profits on finance rebates...