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...with all the appeal of Ted Williams' homer his last time at bat. As president of prestigious First Boston Corp., Investment Banker James Coggeshall Jr. one day last week managed the biggest stock sale of the year-the Ford Foundation's offering of 2,250,000 Ford Motor Co. shares. The $218 million deal went so smoothly that Ford stock actually rose a point to 984:. That taken care of, 65-year-old "Jim Cogg" returned to his office, wrote out the letter of resignation that ended his 42-year investment career, and headed off to retirement...
Clement A. Riley, currently the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, also seeks the Democratic nomination, but not with much likelihood of victory. There has been some speculation that former Boston Mayor John Hynes, long a popular figure in Massachusetts politics, would eventually enter the race, and if he does so he would be a formidable candidate...
When it bought up Philadelphia's faltering Philco Corp. 4½ months ago, the Ford Motor Co. intended merely to acquire a readymade position in the electronics and aerospace industries. Last week Ford was discovering that by taking over Philco it had also bought its way into a savage feud with another U.S. industrial giant-Radio Corp. of America...
...real reason people should come to America is for America. And for that they should visit Pennsylvania. Where else can one motor gently and successively through the hamlets of Bluebell, Intercourse and Paradise? At any rate, foreigners can happily make Pennsylvania their eatlife in this country: free samples of the principal products of Hershey, Pa., and Williamsport, Pa. (home of the World's Largest Peanut Butter Factory), will keep them chawing for weeks...
...Dreamy Pines Motor Court, where two hoods called Sluggsy and Horror find Vivienne all alone in her black velvet toreador pants ("with the rather indecent gold zip down the seat"). They behave tastelessly ("Okay, Horror. Let her go. This is for me"). Enter, at long last, the man with the white scar on his left cheek. "I quickly put my hand up to hide my nakedness. Then he smiled and suddenly I thought I might be all right...