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...Pick Nick." A New Jersey merchant's son who did his childhood prattling in Greek, Murray Butler wasted no time. Graduating from high school at 13, he entered Columbia three years later, soon became its biggest undergraduate "bun-yanker" (honor-grabber). At 20 he graduated as top man in his class, at 21 acquired his M.A., at 22 his Ph.D. He promptly became a Columbia teacher and founded Teachers College in his spare time...
...efforts to squeeze the last penny of profit out of wartime cotton prices actually means nothing less than socialization of the cotton growers. For the Government may well become the sole buyer of their crops, the arbiter of price, and the dictator of production. Even the hardest-boiled cotton grabber would admit that under this act and its accompanying policy, free markets and free trading have gone a-glimmering-for as long as the policy lasts...
This did not mean quick and big production. WPTB Chairman Donald Gordon repeated his "Don't be a grabber'' plea (TIME, Sept.11). But plants equipped to turn out the metal articles could now go ahead and turn them out if they could find men and materials left over after filling Government orders. WPTB added: prices must be kept at 1941 levels...
Most chillers overcrowd the screen with werewolves or explain away all supernatural antics as the deliberate hocus-pocus of a mad scientist, estate-grabber or Axis agent. The Uninvited blends the everyday with the inexplicable, gets a lot of its best scares out of the everyday. The skittering of a squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps...
Only one job was at stake: the Senate seat now precariously held by Joseph F. Guffey, 64, the most forthright pap-grabber in Pennsylvania politics since the fabulous Boies Penrose. Two other Democrats wanted Mr. Guffey's job: Walter Adelbert Jones, oilman and chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission; and onetime Pittsburgh Mayor Bill McNair, 59, political jack-in-the-box, author of the campaign's best crack: "Anyone with a clean shirt on can beat Guffey." Ex-Mayor McNair had no chance. Behind Walter Jones was David L. Lawrence, State Democratic chairman. Mr. Lawrence has been withdrawn...