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Since he owns only 2% of the stock himself, Roy Fruehauf looked for allies, but could not quite line up a majority of the stock. In the pinch, he turned to Seattle's Dave Beck, pink-faced boss of the A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Beck agreed to help, bought 37,500 shares of Fruehauf stock in the open market for about $950,000. But all voting rights and dividends were turned over to the Roy Fruehauf Foundation, Inc., which was incorporated in 1950 as a tax-free foundation to breed lead dogs for the blind. In effect, says...
...same salt solution, give or take a pinch, that the movie public has been contentedly gargling since Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). There are Robert Taylor and the usual miniature whale, the mutiny on the blood-slopped foredeck, the bad harpooner called Silva. the nice native girl (Betta St. John) and the sunken treasure-in this case so palpably a ball bearing that audiences may wonder why all the actors believe it to be a large black pearl...
...state's teachers' colleges has been dropping at the rate of about 200 a year. Last summer, angered over their salaries, 400 teachers quit their jobs in disgust, and last fall Utah barely escaped a general teachers' strike. Even prosperous Salt Lake City has felt the pinch: its schools have been so short of funds that they had to abandon their home-study program for blind and crippled children...
...kids, at least are frivolous enough to raid female schools, to pinch pantic girdles, to cut their hair in weird apache designs and tear down goal posts. By my observation, every European student thinks he is an embryo William Pitt, Garibaldi or Clemenceau with overtones of Stalin and wants everybody to learn about it at the top of his lungs...
Thomas Gaydos '54 holds the title role. He will be supported by Sue Chapelle Pinch '54, Edward Golden '55, Ronald Richards '56, and Richard Mayer '56. Richard Heffron '52 will direct...