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...employees in a vault and made off with $36,000. Finally, there was Christmas acoming; in Boston, live reindeer pranced on the Common, not far from a creche with a sign that was a symbol of the times. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, a regal, 60-ft. Norway spruce blazed with thousands of lights and shiny aluminum spangles...
...elaborate birthday gift came from a group of wealthy Chinese living in Thailand: $750,000 for a basketball stadium in Taipei. In island-wide celebrations, a choral group of 10,000 soldiers sang birthday songs, toasts were proposed for Chiang's health at thousands of dinners, and a spruce detachment of Nationalist Chinese "WAVES" paraded smartly. Chiang still clings to an old hope. Spotting a veteran Western newsman at a reception, Chiang said, "I'll never forget that you were the last correspondent with us on the mainland, and I want you to be the first with...
Losers, by and large, tend to be weepers. And weepers tend to be bores. But George Lisle-Spruce, the down-at-heel non-hero of British Novelist Scott's newest book, is neither. He watches himself sinking for what may be the last time with a detached compassion that is as refreshing as it is rare in an age much given to voluble self-pity...
...Lord Peter Wimsey. Balliol wafts along on a modest budget of $450,000, costs students about $1,260 a year, and is well laced with state scholarship boys. To spruce up the premises, it is launching a $2.8 million birthday fund drive, but bricks interest it less than brains. Only the brightest apply each year, and only about one out of six (including six or eight Americans) gets in. Hardly anyone drops...
...bright red. Last week the Times announced that for the first quarter of this year, during which its 735,000-circulation New York edition did not publish a single copy,* it suffered a net loss of $4,136,000, even after $295,000 in dividends from Canada's Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co., in which the Times owns 42% of the voting stock. It was the worst loss in the paper's 152-year history. "Additional revenue must be obtained," said Board Chairman Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Publisher Orvil E. Dryfoos, "to make up for our losses." Which...