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...Last fortnight Rines changed his black tie for a red and grey striped one. He thought he had won a partial victory. A jury in the grey courthouse* at Dedham, Mass, returned verdicts against two of the doctors by finding that they had performed their duties "in such a negligent manner" that it caused Mrs. Rines's injury and death. Damages assessed against the doctors totaled $15,000. Verdicts were returned in favor of three other physicians; the cases against the three nurses and the hospital had been dropped...
...Police & General Svoboda. The National Socialist was one of four non-Communist parties which had brought on the crisis. Fortnight before, its leaders, together with those of the Slovakian Democrat, Catholic People's and Social Democrat parties, had caused a showdown. They caught Police Boss Nosek firing non-Communist policemen and replacing them with Reds. When Nosek refused to reinstate the men, 15 non-Communist cabinet members boycotted the cabinet...
...Voters. Nevertheless the Argentine show helped Perón at home. For once (and just a fortnight before the congressional elections), the entire press stood with his government. Thundered the anti-Perón La Prensa: "No Argentine citizen will ever agree that his government should have to ask permission in order to occupy Antarctic lands belonging to the national patrimony...
First he played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with his old friend George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in Carnegie Hall; then, a few days later, a piano recital-the only one he will give all year in Manhattan. Yet in the next fortnight he will play in San Francisco five times. Says he: "Agents [he has none] think I am crazy. But when I go some place, I like to stay awhile. To play, pick up the check and run is silly...
...falling out came over the third issue of K-F stock, a fast-moving, on-again-off-again deal that baffled the sharpest-eyed in Wall Street. Fortnight ago, Otis & Co. announced that 900,000 shares of the new issue had been "sold." But most of it had not been sold to the public; the underwriters had been stuck with it. As they had agreed to pay K-F $11.50 a share and offer it to the public at $13-and the stock was selling below the offering price-they could not unload it on the public without risking...