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Funny Question. Murchison extends the same open-shirted informality to his business. One sure laugh at stockholder meetings of his key Delhi Oil Co. is provided by a stockholder, a mailman who has made a small fortune. He plaintively asks the same question year after year: "Clint, when you goin' to pay a dividend?" Delhi stockholders, who get few dividends, can afford to guffaw at this. They all know that Murchison is interested not in dividends but in piling up the lower-taxed capital gains. He achieves them for himself and his stockholders by "spinning" new companies...
...reader, who moved from 440 Marlborough Street, sent in his request for a change : "Would you please see that my address is changed to 350 Marlborough Street? As the mailman delivers the route from the high numbers to the low numbers, he will be able to read my TIME 90 street numbers longer every week. This should take him pretty well through Milestones. As it was, the poor fellow learned little about Radio-TV and still less about the Theater...
...amateur archaeologist ever since he was a boy in the Ozarks, 69-year-old Digger Hancock showed his visitor an array of calcified nuts, leaves and bone fragments. Paleontologist Simpson was fascinated by a giant (450 lbs.), two-tusked hunk of elephant skull which the ex-mailman had dug up twelve years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant...
...Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson, former president of General Electric, who resigned last March as Director of Defense Mobilization, after a row with Harry Truman, or with Charles E. (for Eben) Wilson, onetime vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. Only common complaint of the Charles E. Wilsons: the mailman often mixed up their dividend checks...
...anti-dog ordinance in the city council that would virtually force dog owners to keep their pets on a leash or shut up in yards of homes. On its back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage." As dogs do every time, the man-eater struck a "cute 1'il WoozyOzzums" pose when the postal inspector arrived to investigate McMucilage's complaint. Nevertheless, the harm was done. Hatlo had sabotaged the paper's campaign...