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...Gunsmith Gilbert Forbes, proprietor of The Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...
...semiweekly with regional editions for Washington, Richmond, New Jersey and the rest of the Northeast that bring its circulation up to 93,500. Founded in 1892, it ought to be known as the Murphy paper. Board Chairman John Murphy III, 60, is a third-generation proprietor, and 15 Murphy family members work for him. The Afro serves up rich portions of information on education, careers, consumerism and fashion, is keenly aware of black heritage subjects, carries a great deal of Third World news and has its own photographic morgue. Its generally gentlemanly tone contrasts with a helter-skelter makeup that...
...Business had been rippingly good, so the proprietor of P.F.F. Inc., a front for a fencing operation in Washington, D.C., decided to throw a party for customers to celebrate five months of successful traffic in stolen goods. But to the dismay of the purse snatchers, car thieves and assorted other heist artists who showed up for the blast, P.F.F. Inc. turned out to stand for Police-FBI Fencing Incognito, the largest and most successful undercover undertaking in the city's history. Last week when the party was over, 126 people had been arrested, among them an assistant federal prosecutor...
...quiet rustle of asparagus sprengeri and chlorophytum comosum is music to the ears of Rock Impresario Bill Graham these days. Graham, 45, the former proprietor of the Fillmore rock emporiums in New York and San Francisco, last week opened a six-day horticultural extravaganza at the San Francisco Cow Palace. Called "The World of Plants," it is a kind of Woodstock for flora freaks, featuring exhibits by 250 plant merchants, a 35-ft.-high bush-covered volcano, human tomatoes, and the piped-in music of Villa-Lobos, Debussy and Bartók. Rock groups may be fun, Graham reflects...
...active feminists is making an issue of local censorship of Playgirl magazine. Steimatzky's Agency, a Tel Aviv-based book and magazine distributor, gave up censoring female nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking out the male genitals in copies of Playgirl. Explains Proprietor Yehezkel Steimatzky, 75: "Everybody is used to nude women, but nude men are new on the Israeli market, and I am afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky's emasculation of the magazine. Since Israel has no pornography...