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...Newark News was not the only paper that was disturbed by Rex Morgan, M.D., although it was the only one that threw it out. From Canada the Hamilton, Ont. Spectator dashed off a query to the syndicate; so did the staid Providence, R.I. Bulletin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Operation on the Doctor | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...tedious route in a pretty lumbering conveyance. The Scotland Yard man furthermore insists on going over every inch of the way; and the lovers, both of whom are understandably suspect, become understandably and loquaciously suspicious of each other. The whole thing is blameless enough. But it remains a terribly staid, genteel British whodunit that almost never sets the brain aracing, the spine atingle or the mouth agape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Last spring the Aliens quietly began buying up the stock of Montreal's staid, solid old Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, which had only 20,000 shares outstanding. The stock, then selling for about $780 a share, was paying $20 a share in dividends. What made the stock look special was the fact that prosperous Sun Life, with $77.8 million in surplus funds, could legally pay four times as much in dividends. If the Aliens could gain control, they could not only quadruple their dividends under the law, but enhance the value of their stock in the bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Border Raid | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

With gentle urging, but always keeping Country Boy in easy, deliberate hand, Norma cleared jump after jump cleanly, guided willing Country Boy to a flawless ride-and the first U.S. team victory in the National in two years. The appreciative roar from the usually staid crowd would have done credit to a fight mob cheering a knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Back in the Saddle | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...best legal manner, the staid old law firm of Root, Ballantine, Harlan, Bushby & Palmer harrumphed out a letter. It went to John K. Hill, an innkeeper in Center Ossipee, N.H. "It has come to the attention of our client, Hotels Statler Co., Inc., that you are using for your own inn the term 'The Statler of the Sticks' ... It is contrary to the policy of the Statler Co. to permit the use of its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: Out of the Sticks | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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