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Rancher Thornton sold a prize steer for a charity benefit (see cut), Ward cheerfully made the high bid of $6,000. Just as cheerfully, Thornton later lent Ward $10,000 for a quick deal in return for a postdated $12,500 check (the extra $2,500 was to be Thornton's profit). The governor was puzzled when the check bounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: A Selling Fool | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...four or five years," said Oliphant. "I make no effort to minimize our friendship. Our relations were essentially social. I visited him at his apartment [in Washington], at his places in Florida and New Jersey." They often had lunch together, and Grunewald always picked up the check. Yes, Grunewald lent Sim money-$1,300 some time last year. Furthermore, Oliphant had given jobs in his bureau to people suggested by Grunewald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pride in My Name | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...editor of the pro-Communist magazine Amerasia, and was about to arrest him. Then one day, John Stewart Service, a lean-jawed, young State Department foreign service officer just back from China, walked into Jaffe's hotel room in Washington and into the range of FBI microphones. Service lent Jaffe a sheaf of State Department reports on China, some stamped "secret" and "confidential." In four separate hotel-room sessions, he talked to Jaffe at great length about U.S. policy in China, twice cautioning Jaffe that the information he gave him was "very secret" or "confidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Mantle of Charity | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...years, George has seen thousands of children come & go. He lent them money and bought them presents. Often he paid for school equipment out of his own pocket, and at Christmas he would buy a paper mural of the Nativity for the cafeteria, "just because I figured it was a good thing for the kids to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Something for George | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...financial problem, H.A.A. support comes to $300 annually--enough to buy ski wax, and to cover breakages--so skiing is lent the distinction of being the most expensive sport for enthusiasts in the College. For example, Houser calculates that a "four event man," or competitor who can handle downhill jumping, slalom, and cross country, will have to pay up to $420 maximum for his complete equipment of skis, boots, bindings, and clothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/19/1951 | See Source »

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