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CAPITAL TRANSIT CO., Washington's oft-troubled transportation system, which Financier Louis Wolfson milked of millions (TIME, June 25), will finally be sold. For $13.5 million, syndicate headed by Manhattan Real Estateman O. Roy Chalk has agreed to buy bus and streetcar line, is expected to take over next...
Wet Sponges. Barby Sabini, a shifty Italian from the unsavory Saffron Hill district, started the racket way back in the 1920s when he and his brothers, armed with wet sponges, used to hang around the race tracks, erasing the chalked odds on the bookie's tote boards if they...
LOUIS WOLFSON, who bought control of Washington's Capital Transit in 1949 for $2,189,160, milked it, then lost its franchise when Congress got angry about a 52-day strike, may reap even more than an estimated $5,300,000 profit for himself and his group. National City...
Shucking off Stars. For the elder states man of baseball, the fact that the Pirates had become inconvenient to the rest of the league was pleasant news indeed. When Rickey came to town in 1950 -after building championship teams in St. Louis and Brooklyn - the Pirates were a lackluster crew...
It looks as if TIME'S book reviewers would realize that they are confirming C. Wright Mills's suspicion that America is well on its way to hell when they give, in the April 30 issue, nothing but cheers to Franchise Sagan's "tale of extramarital fun...