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Greetings from Japan. Taking note of Howard's globe-trotting habit, Model Judy Coate draped a lei around his neck (see cut) and the tape was turned on for "Japanese opinion" of Editor Howard...
...Canadian firms dealt in such stocks as "Stampede Petroleums Ltd.," "Oakridge Mining Corp." and "Candoo Metals & Oils Ltd." Their persuasive salesmen, charged the grand jury, called likely prospects with phony reports of new oil and uranium strikes. A favorite trick was to quote a stock at one price, then lei a sucker buy it for less, pretending he was getting a tremendous bargain when actually the stock was worthless. One promoter made a sale by gasping over the phone that he had "just run in from the field" where a new well was brought...
...pleased. An audience of 18,582 fans had paid a whopping $334,730 at the gate. Another $100,000 in television rights brought the total to a record for a non-heavyweight bout. Bobo's share of all this was 35%. On good-natured impulse, he took a lei from his own neck and draped it over the neck of the startled Gavilan, then walked to his corner to await the opening bell...
...lances fiercely at the ring with a pudgy forefinger; he jangles vacant-eyed through a miniature scenic railway, slings a sledge as big as himself, whomps the nickel rockets grimly at the wooden milk bottles till they topple at last, and the victor's laurel-a limp paper lei-descends on his brow, and falls around his neck...
Three Days of Golf. The heavy cruiser nosed up to Baker Dock in Pearl Harbor. Ike stood in the Hawaiian sunshine on the main deck. Tanned and fit, he came ashore to a rousing welcome, complete with honor guard, hula dancers, a lei of red carnations, and a motorcade tour of Honolulu...