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Rotarian's Return. No sooner had Ling and several associates installed themselves in a suite at the downtown Pfister Hotel than Ling began his performance. Instead of the Big Man from Big D, Jim Ling played the visiting Rotarian. In a telegram to Allis-Chalmers' board, he offered to pay roughly $45 a share for 51% of the company's common stock-then trading at about $35 -if the board would give its O.K. Such politeness hardly suggested a Texas raider, and Ling himself soon ventured out to win the heart and mind of Milwaukee. He phoned...
...built his weekly Washington Letter to a circulation of 250,000, and added four specialized letters (tax, agriculture, Florida, California -combined circ. 50,000), along with a monthly Changing Times magazine (circ. 1,000,000), all serving up more-or-less inside dope written in the skeletal style of telegram English; of heart disease; in Bethesda...
...weeks ago he sent a telegram to the Lowndes Country school board congratulating it on re-segregating school faculties, this defiance of the courts may mean the loss of $342,000 in annual Federal school funds. Then last weekend Maddox scrapped the speech he prepared for the Christian Crusade at Tulsa and unleashed one that sounded like an old Pickrick advertisement: "One of the greatest tragedies of our times has been the effort to brand conservative thought and action as irresposibility and lunacy...
...magazine has offered "The Holy Kennedys," "The Late General MacArthur, Warts and All," "Bobby Baker Has It Made," "Two Cheers for the National Geographic," "In Defense of Cassius Clay," "The Life and Suspiciously Hard Times of Anthony Quinn," and "The American Newspaper Is Neither Record, Mirror, Journal, Ledger, Bulletin, Telegram, Examiner, Register, Chronicle, Gazette, Observer, Monitor, Transcript, nor Herald of the Day's Events...
After months of anxiety the telegram from Harvard must have been a great relief. Ironically, that same day, the very day he learned that his papers would be preserved and protected, Trotsky was assassinated. A man calling himself Frank Jacson, who had connived his way into Trotsky's confidence, crept up behind him while he was at work in his study, and crushed his skull with...