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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move to suburban Park Terrace. Says his wife Geraldene: "We didn't have a down payment. But Frank was determined. He took out a $20 bill and handed it to the salesman and said, 'This is to show that I mean business.' We started to save for the down payment on the budget plan and finally got a G.I. mortgage." The Derricks now have a brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets, an air conditioner, piano, dog, two birds, a 1953 Chrysler, and a Zoysia grass lawn that is the envy of their neighbors...
...Take a look at this mug. What else can they call me?") is at his grim best against the Giants' challengers. He has five wins over Milwaukee, three over Los Angeles. What is more, Jones is willing and able to trudge in from the bullpen to save a game. Despite its long medical history, Jones's arm is plenty strong enough to stand the strain. It always was; his problem was control. Although he had not played much baseball growing up in Monongah, W. Va. (pop. 1,622), Jones developed such speed that Army Air Corps coaches turned...
...give him an exclusive contract to obtain 5% mortgaging on 200 houses. With his $25,000 fee, he opened an office to hunt up more business. Learning that J. P. Morgan was paying 6% on some mortgaged loft buildings in lower Manhattan, Clark, 17, wrote Morgan that he could save him money by refinancing, was invited to Morgan's office. When he arrived, Morgan barked: "What s.o.b. sent for you?'' Replied Clark: "You're the s.o.b. who sent for me.'' Morgan laughed, said, "Good for you, young man"-and let him refinance the mortgages...
Halleck, at home with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...
...jerry-built empire of Alexander L. Guterma, financial juggler, began to totter early this year, he desperately sought more cash to save it. Guterma, then boss of the F. L. Jacobs Co.. which controlled the Mutual Broadcasting System and at least twelve other corporations, found a likely moneybags in the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, always willing to pay for favorable publicity. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington charged that Guterma, 44, collected $750,000 from Trujillo to disseminate "political propaganda" and failed to register as an agent of a foreign power. The grand jury...