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...went over to the Republican Herald Tribune. His column, "Today and Tomorrow," made him a celebrity; at its peak, it was carried by more than 200 papers and was considered required reading up and down the corridors of power. "Zip!" sang a stripper in the Broadway musical Pal Joey, "Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today." A series of TV interviews in the '60s exposed him to millions more who had never read...
Some deposit-starved banks have long tried attracting new business with gifts like toasters and TV sets. But the latest gimmick is an improbable appeal to human friendship. Banks in New York, Chicago and St. Paul are now making their pitch to the potential customer's pals. "Bring a friend," advertises New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust. If someone deposits $75,000 for 2½ years, his pal will collect a sponsor's fee of $2,343.75. The First National Bank of Chicago pays a finder $25 for each $1,000 deposited by a buddy into...
...believe that as the U.S. recession deepens, disgruntled employees, psychopaths or terrorists will increasingly threaten industry leaders. Corporate security has now become a $7 billion to $10 billion business, and even the aging comic-strip crime fighter Dick Tracy last week was faced with the kidnaping of his old pal Millionaire Entrepreneur Diet Smith...
...gray suit was not Michael Schwartz but the jumpsuited prisoner, Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, 49, successful horse trainer, real estate entrepreneur and convicted murderer. The man he left behind turned out not to be Michael Schwartz either, but Anthony DeRosa, 47, onetime bartender and a longtime pal of Jacobson's. When DeRosa himself tried to leave the prison, a guard asked him where his "client" had gone. Only then did prison officials belatedly sound the alert...
DIED. George Pal, 72, Hollywood producer-director and pioneer of cinema science fiction, whose special effects won his films eight Academy Awards; of an apparent heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Hungarian-born Pal, who came to the U.S. in 1939, had already made a name as a cinema cartoonist, but soon turned to full-length features; his first science-fiction film, Destination Moon (1950), anticipated procedures and equipment used in the 1969 lunar landing and brought him an Oscar, followed by others for The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. He was pleased...