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...been gathering evidence for a full-scale investigation of RFC by his Senate banking subcommittee. Last week, as his committee began hearings, it looked as though he had struck pay dirt at the first swing of his pick. The case was that of the Texmass Petroleum Co., an oil outfit which got authorization for a $10,100,000 loan from RFC in 1949. The money has not yet been paid out and Senator Fulbright hoped he could prevent its ever being drawn...
Chubby, slick-haired Frank John Yankovic, 34, has had a way with old-fashioned polkas ever since he got his first accordion from his Slovenia-born parents at the age of nine. But he has also had some ideas of his own. Since he organized his own outfit more than ten years ago, he has turned out polka versions of popular tunes and folk songs, besides playing such polka-circuit standards as My Wife Is Happy and Hurray Slovenes...
...just a publicity stunt for BOAC. Washington's Educational Services, a serious-minded outfit dedicated to the proposition of "Recordings for more effective learning," had arranged the show to promote the latest wrinkle in learning-while-sleeping devices. Educational Services is planning to put out a tape-recording kit with instructions for learning anything from good behavior (for children) to old Danish...
While the main purpose of the Band's journey is to build prestige for the outfit, the Band will be paid for the concerts, Hopkins reports...
Candidates are taught how to use the CRIMSON's modern fully-equipped press camera as well as a new speed-flash outfit. All film, bulbs and other photographic supplies are furnished...