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...Japanese fried shrimp, Buddhist chants and a hoard of silver figured in the testimony of John Provoo, charged with...
...kind word. But there is a slight catch: the kind word must refer to a particular product by its brand name, and it must be mentioned on a radio or TV show with an audience of millions. Give-away programs get the bulk of a Schlockmeister's warehouse hoard. Any televiewer who has sat benumbed while an announcer rattles off the list of prizes knows how meticulously the Schlockmeister is paid...
...piece, the monumental hoard of art and knickknacks collected by the late William Randolph Hearst is going under the auctioneer's hammer. The latest group, some 300 pieces of old arms and armor, sold in Manhattan last week for a total of $40,810. The sale included a 16th century burgonet (helmet with cheek-pieces), the highest priced item, which went to a private collector for $3,200, and a 1560 wheel-lock Italian arquebus which the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought...
...captain "who gave me some lip" by complaining to the Japanese, who executed him; 2) he tried to get a U.S. colonel to turn U.S. codes over to the Japanese; 3) he beat up a U.S. sergeant in a vain effort to get information about a hoard of $7,500,000 in silver which the U.S. Army had dumped into the sea rather than let it fall into Japanese hands...
...Corporation's problem, then, is to rid itself of that nagging drain on its cherished and fast-diminishing hoard. A vigorous appeal for more endowed funds is the most obvious solution, and, assuming success, by far the best. A band of faithfuls, talking briskly in terms of millions, began such a drive last year, hoping to raise $2,000,000 by the January, 1954 deadline. Despite all the trumpeting throughout the nation about returning Faith to education, only a pitiful $600,000 has been pledged so far. There is no use in analyzing this gloomy result, nor is anything gained...