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...were in a seesaw battle in which first one, then the other, was temporarily ahead. Old Dragnet shows, which are rerun as Badge 714 on 126 television stations, pull more viewers (their ARE ratings run from a low of 8 in San Diego to a high of 54.6 in Norfolk, Va.) than many a first-run show, and Dragnet is still a radio attraction on Tuesday night...
...magnificent pair of pictures, worthy of the great tradition of Giovanni Bellini, and showing a clarity of form and color foreign to 20th century artists. The question was how they had come to disappear in the first place. They were known to have been in the Duke of Norfolk's collection in 1894, when Westminster Cathedral was still under construction. Presumably he gave them to the cathedral, and they lay forgotten for years in the cavernous fastnesses of Westminster...
...long and successful career analyzing the securities of railroads that have undergone or are going through reorganization, New York Financier Patrick B. McGinnis has developed a sharp eye for good buys in railroad stocks. A group he headed got control of the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in 1947; the following year he helped Frederic C. Dumaine Sr. get control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and later got a large chunk of common stock in the Central of Georgia Railway Co. But as a railroad officer, his batting average was not so good: stockholders eased him out last...
...being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid out $7,200 for trips of officials and their guests to the Kentucky Derby...
...should be of his immunity from them; Marshall rightly regards it as a personal tribute that the justices expect him to meet the frankest and most penetrating questions they can put. After his argument in Alston v. School Board, involving racial discrimination in salaries of public-school teachers in Norfolk, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit paid Marshall a rare compliment of another kind: still in their robes, the three judges stepped down off the bench to congratulate him on his masterly presentation...