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...Wall Street expected, the 10.2 million shares of Ford stock put on sale for $64.50 by the Ford Foundation promptly "went out the window" on F-day. The seven syndicate managers (Blyth & Co., Inc.; First Boston Corp.; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Lehman Bros.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane; White, Weld & Co.) each got 307,500 shares. But the 2,000 other firms that helped sell the issue got far less, sometimes as few as 1,500. Even giant Merrill Lynch could average only 9.7 shares per sale in its 114 offices...
...pound division saw Joe Goodman pinned by Campbell in 4:09 with a hammer and half nelson. The closest match of the day was the battle in the 167 pound class, which Bob Gilmor dropped in a 5-4 decision to Lynch...
...sack private accused of murdering a girl, is defended by idealistic young Lieut. Dewey Martin, who is soon convinced that his client is being framed by a pair of villainous MPs. The court-martial is as farcically one-sided as if it were being run by Judge Lynch himself. When Martin protests, he is placed under barracks arrest. In the last five minutes of the play, this monstrous parody of justice turns out to have been only a bureaucratic bungle: Gregory is cleared, Martin warmly praised, and the hidebound brasshats reveal with twinkling good humor that they had been suspicious...
Councillor John D. Lynch, a Sullivan supporter, said last night that Sullivan had "a good chance of getting up in the high chair. The first thing he will do when he gets up they will be to fire Curry (City Manager John J. Curry '19). A couple of Sullivan's boys are running for manager, you know...
...will launch its space satellite. The Russians will shoot it down, then explain, "It looked just like a trial balloon" and pay half the cost. Senator East land will demand that the U.S. secede from the U.N." and lynch them Ruskies." Russia, in the meantime, will announce the installation of the "Peasant Boys' Administration; what is good for General Zhukov is good for the Soviet Union." Guatemala will claim...