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...number of would-be investors who enclosed money in their letters. Said she: "Cash money, I mean. It's a real tribute to the faith people have in TIME." One man from Hot Springs, Ark. enclosed a check for $200 and a note reading: "As an inveterate cookie gobbler, I'm interested to know whether you have any unsold shares of common stock lying around." From as far away as Norway and Australia came letters and cablegrams. Said Dottie: "I almost dropped dead when I got a cable from South Africa. Imagine, a cable from South Africa...
Power Politics. In Pahokee, Fla., Mayor Lewis Friend explained how he happened to shoot his fellow hunter, Town Councilman D. W. Cunningham, who had selected a tree as a handy observation post: "I mistook his polka-dot shirt for a turkey gobbler...
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...years Winchell was "sans contract." He had told the publisher of Hearst's New York Mirror that if The Chief "wants to keep me interested," perhaps they'd better talk things over. As matters stood, the pay from his syndicated column was chicken feed for Turkey Gobbler Winchell: on the radio, where he sells lotion, he was getting $7,500 a week, a $130,000-a-year raise over 1946. His gross income: $502,000 a year...
...hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there." He lit a cigaret, drank a glass of water and visited the control room, all the time directing the band with his pinkie, and rocking his head like a strutting turkey gobbler...