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...reap the rewards of his invention as I have done." So said one Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires...
...premium at $5 and to add 10.20 as a "tail" to make sure there was no tie, making the total bid $21.602 per share. Then at 4:20, just ten minutes ahead of a deadline set by the Treasury, a Salomon agent dropped the bid into a slot in the northwest conference room on the tenth floor at the New York Federal Reserve Bank building on Liberty St. The Chrysler bid was the highest, and by the margain Iacocca had demanded. It was just 93.40 per share more than the second highest bid of $20.668, which was made...
...rest of baseball (American League Leaders Baltimore and Chicago have secure margins; the Dodgers seem safely ahead in the N.L. West), but in the unstable East, four struggling teams have remained within three games of the lead all month. Pittsburgh, Montreal and Philadelphia have exchanged the top slot almost daily, and defending World Series Champion St. Louis has lurched to within half a game of the summit...
...show. The first episode gives hints of money wrangles and byzantine plot twists, but The Yellow Rose could be more than a prairiefied Dallas. NBC says the series is "in the tradition of Giant and Hud, "and it is. It is also in the Saturday-night graveyard slot, so it will have to corral an audience quickly. The Yellow Rose deserves a shot: this lowdown hoedown is the fall's juiciest new show. -By Richard Corliss
Sean McGuire and Stewart Mitchell were fighting over the starting quarterback slot when this story went to press. Baughan will pick the starter September 12. Neither is unusually talented...