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...deal rocked Hollywood to its plaster-of-Paris foundations. Harry Warner, speaking for himself and his brothers, Al and Jack, announced that they were arranging to sell their control of Warner Bros. Pictures to a syndicate headed by San Francisco's millionaire Real Estate Operator Louis R. Lurie.* The syndicate agreed to pay the brothers about $25 million for the Warner family's 24% controlling stock interest in the $161 million film and theatrical empire-once the biggest film company...
...blankets and sweaters. San Francisco's huge Emporium is bulging with all the things that are expected to become hard to get-furniture, woolens, metal goods, etc. Said a New York liquor dealer: "There's so much whisky stacked on Manhattan that an A-bomb blast would plaster half of Philadelphia...
Reporter Shannon's articles, running in the Journal this week, began with Zebulon High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...
However, somebody tipped the Council off that the statues were just plaster coated with bronze. Mickey's order never got to a vote, but it gave him good press publicity...
University Department of Building and Grounds officials said last night that the worst damage came at 10 p.m. Saturday night when two brick chimneys in Grays Hall toppled through the roof, leaving holes that allowed rain to wash away the wall and ceiling plaster of four rooms. Three students living in the top floor suite will not be able to return for another two weeks, while the three students living on the floor below have been evicted by the workmen for about three days. No one was injured, though there was a sleeping Yale man in the top floor room...