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...Letting 30,000 people die in Vietnam is better than having the United States lose prestige," think-merchant Herman Kahn said yesterday afternoon...
Professional reputations are at stake. One highly-regarded reading authority accused Evelyn Wood of being a "speed merchant." In 1962, George D. Spache, director of the reading laboratory and clinic at the University of Florida, wrote: "Furthermore, if anyone offers to teach you or your pupils to read at speeds in thousands of words per minute..., the kindest thing you can say to him is that he is completely ignorant of the nature of the act of reading...
...first question should be, "Who was Charley Ross anyway?" In 1874, Charley was the fetching four-year-old son of a Philadelphia dry-goods merchant. On a drowsy July afternoon of that year, he (or so the author claims) became America's first known victim of a kidnaping for ransom...
...more careful legal and physical protection than any other murder suspect in recent history (his trial was shifted from Chicago for fear of adverse publicity), is represented by Public Defender Gerald Getty, 53, none of whose 80 odd murder defendants has ever received a death sentence. The accused, sometime merchant seaman and ex-convict, seemed to have been crossed up only by the one event of July 13 that the killer had overlooked. By rolling under a bunk while the murderer led her roommates to the slaughter, Miss Amurao had escaped his attention while watching his movements...
...producing good movies? Some of Cohn's detractors reply with the old saw about flowers springing from dunghills. Author Thomas conversely believes that Cohn's toughness was merely an act to keep his vulnerability and sensitivity from showing. The truth probably lies somewhere between. Cohn was a merchant. He made more than his share of shoddy products: the Blondie series, Boston Blackie, Crime Doctor. But the B pictures earned profits and gave Columbia a chance to trade up. It meant acquiring quality merchandise, and often Cohn paid the top wholesale price...