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When Cleveland's sly old Cyrus Eaton pulled out of his firm's contract to underwrite Henry Kaiser's new $10 million stock issue for Kaiser-Frazer Corp. in 1948, he tried to find a legal loophole to justify his action...
Eaton, who backed out because the market broke as he floated the issue, failed and a federal court last year awarded Kaiser-Frazer a $3,120,743 judgment against Eaton's underwriting house, Otis & Co. Eaton shut down his business to elude Kaiser's collectors...
West Germans: Saw their Chancellor Adenauer dismayed. Unswerving friend of the West, he was finding his own colleagues taking deep swigs out of the Soviet bottle. Muttered Jacob Kaiser, his minister for All-German affairs: "Germany and the West must consider seriously whether or not a turning point has been reached . . ." Said Free Democratic Leader August Martin Euler, Adenauer's political ally: "For the first time, the Soviet has come up with a proposal worth discussing...
Other independents fumbled around with their styling and interiors; technical improvements were either minor or non-existent. Kaiser for example changed hood ornaments and tacked a chrome-plated tire case on the rear. Studebaker dropped its needle-nose, and Nash swapped its bathtub body for one designd by Italy's Pinin Farina that couldn't help being an improvement...
...Walter Kaiser tops the book reviewers in this issue with his criticism of Cedric Whitman's interpretation of Sophocles' plays. The review is good, straight-forward stuff, a great improvement over Kaiser's "susurrus of hosannahs" days of last Spring. Lewis Begley's review of a collection of poetry essays by Wallace Stevens is good criticism but tedious reading...