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...sound that any noise can be heard throughout the building. Every time I step into my kitchen or go into the hall I hear the intimate sounds of my neighbor's lives. As a final touch, the landlady occasionally takes advantage of my absence to let herself in and snoop through my things...
Critics called him "snoop" and "transom-peeper." One starlet angrily described his visit as a "personal affront." Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, righteously insisted that "Hollywood is pretty much a goes-to-bed-with-the-chickens town." The press joined in with a delighted chorus of catcalls...
...Snoop & Jiggle. Though the Street always purrs with "inside information," the days of great market rigging schemes and of pools operated by "insiders" are dead & buried. (In 1929, there were 105 pools in which insiders ran up the price of the stock by buying heavily, then sold to outsiders and left them holding the bag.) The Securities & Exchange Commission keeps too close a watch now for any such shenanigans...
Working on the theory that "it takes a snoop to catch a jiggle," SEC has 1,100 employees watching all market operations, keeping a constant check on the ticker tape, looking for any unusual buying or selling. (In Manhattan, SEC's tape watcher is an old pool operator of the '20s who knows all the tricks.) If SEC smells something suspicious, it questions the traders, the officials of the company and, if need be, follows up with subpoenas and injunctions. Stock Exchange members, who once bitterly hated the reforming SEC, have learned to live with...
...hospital with his arm braced in a traction apparatus, a staggering total of $126,900 was offered ($100,000 of it by the U.A.W.) for the arrest and conviction of the gunman. Last week every cop, private dick, stool pigeori and neighborhood snoop in Detroit was working overtime, and half the population seemed to have turned amateur detective. But at week's end the assassin was still at large...