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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automatic, the police uncovered a bizarre twist of circumstance: the same pistol had been used as a suicide weapon in Washington back in 1934 by a Commerce Department official who had borrowed it from the owner. The owner got it back from the District of Columbia police, later sold it to a gun shop, where Bang-Jensen bought it in 1941 to use in case he found Nazi agents prowling around the legation of the Danish government in exile...
Smartening Up Mummy. To become teachers, most of the 29 men gave up higher-paying jobs. Ernest Knight, 43, has six children, earned $2,800 a year as a textile salesman. His income for the next two years will be $588, and he has sold his car to help squeak by ("I know I've made the right decision"). A father of two, David Miller, 37, not only sold his grocery store, but got his wife to attend college as well. "We're budgeted to the last penny," says he. "Our kids will get threepenny ice-cream cones...
...pages per issue to the U.S. (in "American Survey," a department introduced seven years ago). Yet last week, in 171 cities from New York to Los Angeles, the Economist did appear on U.S. newsstands. And sales were so brisk, even at 50? a copy, that some spots in Manhattan sold out in two days, while a Washington dealer, having run quickly through an allotment of a dozen, called plaintively for 18 more...
...evidence of his paintings, he enjoyed life thereafter, though he was dirt-poor. By last week the busy world had fully caught up with Gauguin. In just 30 seconds at Sotheby's in London, one of the happy renegade's last South Sea canvases was sold for a record $364,000. Other high prices in the auction of 185 impressionists and postimpressionists: $406,000 for Cezanne's Peasant in a Blue Blouse; $126,000 for a Van Gogh landscape. Total for the sale...
...quality and flavor. Birdseye persisted until he found out why: quick freezing prevents formation of large cell-destroying ice crystals. He went back home to Gloucester, worked out a commercial quick-freeze process, set up the business that became the foundation of the frozen-foods industry. In 1929 he sold his 168 patents to the Postum...