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...legend eluded him, and he left the Tribune to pursue it on other publications, even venturing as far west as Philadelphia. In eight months there, as editor of the Evening Public Ledger (now defunct), he found nothing of value, he said, but an all-night delicatessen. He went back to the homestead in Lampasas County, Texas. There, on 300 acres renamed Black Sheep Retreat, he farmed, designed a pigsty, wrote many articles and more books. For a visitor, he scribbled a hasty creed: "Clean copy. Hard work. Better to know the truth than not. Avoid dullness. Young newspapermen...
...PAPER SHREDDER. A new office paper shredder not much bigger than a typewriter comes from Michael Lith Sales Corp. of Manhattan. The Destroyit Super-Speed can digest 500 Ibs. of confidential letters, microfilm, ledger sheets, contracts, blueprints in an hour, is not upset by stray paper clips or staples. It can handle sheets as wide as a newspaper, produces shreds in three widths-depending on the model-which it neatly spews into disposable plastic bags. For businesses where disposal of confidential or secret material is essential, Destroyit does the job on the spot. Price...
Until recently, the country's budget was recorded by longhand in a grey, clothbound ledger by an old friend of Saud's father. Now there is a published annual budget, and last year Saud established a national economic planning board, with a former officer of the World Bank acting as adviser. But the adviser's plan for a $10 million survey of northern territories is snared in a maze of royal bureaucratic procedure; out of $70 million earmarked for development, $50 million is unspent...
...Texas Attorney General Will Wilson prepared to file an antitrust suit against Estes, alleging that Billie Sol used capital gained from the grain-storage program to help him corner the liquid-fertilizer market in West Texas. Ledger accounts obtained by Wilson indicated that Estes had withdrawn $40,000 in cash from his bank account before flying to Washington in January. Even more mysterious was an Estes ledger entry showing $235,000 paid out for a "Washington project...
While the students' record remains unstained, the Faculty has one much-publicized ledger, the infamous Webster-Park-man murder case of a century...