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...their shares on the stock market. Ranging between one hundred and seventy-five and nine hundred dollars, the price of shares goes up and down with the general trend of the market. Despite the rather forbidding notice on the door restricting the use of the library to shareholders, Walter Muir Whitehill, President of the Atheneum's Trustees and Senior Tutor of Lowell House, explains that the "barriers are raised only high enough to keep out the nuisances...
Today, says May, the situation is far worse. "All of Stimson's On Active Service in Peace and War, except direct quotations, was written by McGeorge Bundy; and part of Hull's lengthy Memoirs was written by Andrew Berding and various State Department experts . . . Walter Muir Whitehall's Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record . . . is a fusion of two firsthand accounts . . . and in the book's World War II narrative, it is sometime? difficult to tell what was actually seen by the commander in chief of the fleet and what was merely glimpsed by Whitehill from...
...hour "Sunday newspaper of the air." Its 15-minute "pages" cover everything from world news to criticism of the arts, call in some well-known name droppers. Tex McCrary interviews celebrities, and Jinx runs a woman's page, Mel Allen talks sports, Elmo Roper talks trends, Florabel Muir (see PRESS) gushes from Hollywood, Earl Wilson gives Broadway lowdown. Weekend is almost overwhelming in its volume and variety, but a generally relaxed manner and skillful transitions make it well worth hearing...
...shouted "Mommy, I want a ring too." A wedding guest quieted her down by slipping off his own ring-a large diamond set in platinum-and putting it on Yasmin's finger. Within two minutes the ceremony was ended and the newlyweds went out, as Columnist Florabel Muir wrote, past "the clanking of the slot machines and the soft chant of the croupiers at the crap tables." to the wedding luncheon for the press...
...Pasadena, Calif., Fortune Gordien, competing in a John Muir College track and field meet, broke his own official world mark in the discus throw with a prodigious toss of 194 ft. 6 in.-bettering the old record...