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Policing the Police. The son of a Brooklyn realtor, Anderson was a bright kid who skipped grades, got out of a Jesuit high school early to enter the Naval Academy as a skinny (6 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.) youngster of 16. He finished 27th in his 1927 class, then plunged wholeheartedly into naval aviation. His rise to high rank was steady, up to a third star as deputy to Pacific Commander Felix Stump in 1957. Then he abruptly asked for a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division and meet an old tradition...
Four years ago, Brown bought 39 acres of land from the city for a magnificent new athletic plant--the property, one of the finest pieces of real estate available in the city for many years--was desired and fought for by every major Providence realtor, yet was sold to the tax-exempt educational institution...
...story office building on stilts caper came to a sudden end yesterday, as Governor Volpe vetoed the controversial bill that would have authorized sale of a strip of land across from Littauer to realtor John Briston Sullivan...
This impressive new novel begins as a Midwestern idyl set on a leafy, residential street in Rainbow Center, Ohio. A widow er of 78. Realtor Boyd Mason comes home to the wide-lawned Victorian house he shares with his sister Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...
...Five firms bid for the rights to 90,000 sq. ft. of air over a two-block area in Upper Manhattan that has been cleared of old apartment buildings for a new expressway approach to George Washington Bridge. The highest bidder: Manhattan Realtor Marvin Kratter, 44, whose Kratter Corp., formed only last year, has become one of New York's most aggressive and ambitious builders. The sale marked the first time New York City has sold air rights over a sunken road for buildings to rise over...