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...lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where another ancient mulatto named Alma Bartholomew produced, on request, 60 different pre-17th century French songs...
...This ain't my kind of place," growled Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
Chemicals 1958 1959 Du Pont $3.08 $4.61 Wyandotte .14 1.22 Freeport Sulphur .79 .91 Union Carbide 1.66 3.00 Olin Mathieson .74 1.32 Thiokol .22 .65 Rails 1958 1959 Pennsylvania Railroad loss $ .48 New York Central Railroad loss 1.56 Miscellaneous RCA $ .86 1.29 B.F. Goodrich 1.60 2.18 Kennecott Copper 2.07 4.32 Libbey-Owens-Ford .57 3.16 Pepsi-Cola .85 .97 American Machine & Foundry 1.38 2.27 Texaco 2.37 2.79 National Distillers .88 1.05 National Cash Register .96 1.07 Phillips Petroleum...
...every investor struck pay dirt. Several solid issues scraped their year's low. American Export Lines (which hit a crest of 34⅝ this year) slipped to 28⅞; Freeport Sulphur slumped to 27⅝ from the year's high of 37⅜. United Aircraft, one of the stocks in the Dow-Jones average, was off to 52½ from...
...tournament named for him and played on his home course at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., aging (46) Sam Snead, one of golf's most brilliant (and most erratic) pros, tore the Greenbrier course apart, had eleven one-putt greens, posted a fabulous 59. Eleven under par, it was the lowest score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Though he has blown big leads in his time, this one was too much for his competitors, and Snead coasted to an eleven-stroke victory...