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...refusal of either parent to hand Chris (Richard Tyler) over to the other, having both parents (Martha Sleeper, Shepperd Strudwick) appeal to the boy. (In the end he chooses his father.) And Playwright Hart has gone inside Chris's mind by bodying forth the conflicting fantasies that float through it-Chris reuniting his parents by killing himself just after being decorated by President Truman; Chris, a great man of affairs, visiting his parents in the poorhouse to denounce them...
...finance it. Offered at $100 a share last June, the new Willys preferred stock was cold-shouldered by old Willys stockholders, then snubbed by the general public. Last week, still holding 75% of the new issue, the underwriters (Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and 45 other firms) gave up trying to float the stock at $100, decided to let it find its own price level. The price promptly bounced down to $60. Price bid at week's end: $61½. Total paper loss to underwriters: approximately...
...Joel Stebbins and A. E. Whitford, of the University of Wisconsin, cast an infra-red ray of hope on astronomy's bitterest sorrow : the invisibility of the Milky Way's nucleus. Even with small telescopes, astronomers can study the galaxies, gigantic clouds of stars which float far off in space. At their centers most galaxies have tight star clusters which may contain much of their mass. These nuclei facinate astronomers, for within them, they suspect, are conditions which exist nowhere else in the universe...
First thing ABC plans to do is to float its first public stock issue of 950,000 shares. That will bring in some $13,000,000, of which $3,630,000 will be used to buy Detroit's King-Trendle Broadcasting Corp. Other millions are earmarked for big, but nebulous, plans for a nationwide chain of television and FM stations. Although the new stock issue will cut Noble's interest in ABC from 71.39% to 36.52%, no one was happier about the FCC action than Ed Noble...
When Pete plunged in, the rising water raised the float, which moved the arm, which pointed on the scale. Pete's weight...