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...Plum. Phillips, a onetime financial reporter, first went to work for Young as financial consultant to Alleghany, helped plan the strategy that won his boss the Central. But barely was the Central bagged before the two fell out. According to Young, Phillips cockily anticipated a prize plum in the new Central setup; when Young instead offered to get him a partnership in a brokerage house, Phillips stalked out. Phillips, however, says he resigned because he considered Young's use of Alleghany funds in the Central fight to be "improper," although he apparently did not reach this decision until after...
...through the centuries, the Jews have lit the Hanukkah lights for eight days each year as a bright symbol of hope. In modern times, Hanukkah has turned into a kind of Jewish counterpart of Christmas-pretty, eight-candle Menorahs instead of Christmas trees, potato pancakes and doughnuts instead of plum pudding, a Hanukkah hymn instead of Come All Ye Faithful, and eight days of presents for the children...
...abysmal depths moves me to congratulate you. How right you are Recently the Daily Express. . . made much of your articles reference to its clever editing and enterprise. Genially patting itself on the back as it is wont to do, it stuck in its thumb and pulled out a plum and said what a good...
Best of Ten. Off Plum Island, Skipper Du Mont got the kind of break no sailor can guess in advance: he came upon a boat in distress. The ketch Rolling Stone, out of Red Bank, N.J., was rolling in the easy swell, her ensign flying upside down from the mizzenmast. She had lost her rudder shaft. Under the rules, no matter how much time Dr. Du Mont lost going to her aid, he would get a perfect score for leg 6. Within minutes, the Coast Guard had been called by radio, and Hurricane III was back on course...
...names made this news: Miami Judge Vincent O. Giblin finally decided what to do about the separation suit slapped on Fur Trader (four generations removed) John Jacob Astor III, 42, by his baby-faced third wife, Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26. Dolly, holding out for the standard $500,000 plum (the same amount Astor gave his first wife, and for which he is now being sued by his second), had offered hours of testimony to prove that J. J. was worse than a beast when aroused. Having characterized the testimony as' "the most filthy [evidence] I have ever heard...