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Altman told his wife he had purchased the violin for $100 from a "friend." These days a Stradivarius can command as much as $1 million. Altman's widow will have to settle for an undisclosed reward from the instrument's rightful owner, Lloyd's of London, which 51 years ago paid the violin's last owner $30,000 for the loss...
...which someone had added the Greek letters of Sigma Chi. The fraternity was in no way responsible for the poster or the Greek letters on it. Members cooperated with the university administration and the black students' organization in dealing with the related tense situation and even offered a reward for the identification of the creators of the poster...
...tradition as old as the Republic, some officials regarded Government service as a splendid opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies. Victor Thompson, president of the Synthetic Fuels Corp., resigned after disclosures that he had sought help for his private bank from a Texas oilman who was doing business with the Government corporation...
Indeed, my biggest problem over the remainder of the performance was trying not to laugh, for the script was clever and the actors skilled. I managed somehow, and had my reward after the show. As I stood smoking a cigarette and watching the people file out, a friend from the audience came up and shook my hand. "You know," he said, "I've seen you do good work in other shows, but you were absolutely dead on stage tonight...
Will Barbie tell us how the network operated? Will he reveal the identity of his highly placed friends? If he does, other questions are certain to arise. The upper echelons of the CIC knew what Barbie had done; how could they reward him for it? Even in the first frosts of the cold war, was it really necessary to call upon individuals like the Butcher of Lyons? Where was honor in all this? And memory...