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...five years, Sharpe manipulated Mrs. Eaves's investments through a series of 648 transactions, made a third of his income from commission on the transactions. In the process, Mrs. Eaves's holdings shrank to $31,700. Last week the SEC ruled that the National Association of Securities Dealers was justified in expelling R. H. Johnson & Co. from membership, revoking Salesman Sharpe's broker registration and suspending the registration of two of the firm's Boston partners for one year. It was the third time in six years that the firm had been disciplined for unethical practices...
...centimeters," groused a Berliner with a 38-cm. neck (15 U.S.). Five-Year Plan pencil sharpeners, wrote Stenographer Ursula Hollman, produce nothing but "crooked points." Worst of all, snorted Housewife Elli Dau, is the unrationed liverwurst. "After roasting it, it is still indigestible. Even our dog shrank his nose and shook his head disapproving...
...Tanks Are Coming (Warner) should make moviegoers long for the days when Hollywood shrank from making war films. Since 1949's Battleground broke the box-office jinx, the studios have bombarded audiences with World War II stories celebrating the infantry and airmen; the Navy's FT boats, submarines, carriers and frogmen; the fighting Coast Guard; the Marines ashore and in the air. Now comes the turn of the armor that spearheaded the U.S. drive through France in the summer...
Then the department calculated how much that particular kind of rope shrank in that climate. Once the victim's neck size was ascertained, 20 young nurses with the same neck size were used to discover how the rope had been wrapped, tied, and so forth. Much about the murderer can be learned this way--whether he was left-handed, short or tall, heavy or slight...
...ledge-walker was a teen-age boy in a wine red shirt and khaki pants. He dropped his jacket. The crowd rumbled as it fell. "Jump!" bawled a voice from the street. The figure swayed out, then shrank back, arms reaching toward windows on either side. New cries arose: "C'mon! Jump! Get the show on the road...