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Born. To Teresa Brewer, 23, tiny, leather-lunged jukebox songstress (Music! Music! Music!; Till I Waltz Again with You), and Bill Monahan, 27, music publisher: a third daughter, third child; in The Bronx. Name: Megan Colleen. Weight...
...Peacemaker Eaton also knew that anyone who got Follansbee at $20 or $21 a share could make millions-as Richmond hoped to do. Richmond had offered Follansbee a gross price of $9,286,620. But since the company had $4,030,405 in cash and bills receivable in the till, the actual out-of-pocket cost to Richmond would be only $5,256,215. By selling the mill for $1,500,000 to Republic, and selling Follansbee's inventories for another $3,090,000, Richmond would reduce his net outlay to a mere $666,215. Richmond would also receive...
...reputation for "milking" companies? Replied Wolfson: "I have been a milker of only one company-[Washington's] Capital Transit Co." This occurred in 1950, when Wolfson and friends bought working control (45.6%) of Capital at $20 a share, quickly paid themselves $30 in dividends from money in the till. Wolfson said that Capital was regulated by a public board, that the shareholders had only been getting a 1.94% return (50? a year). Added he: "I wouldn't follow that policy in any but a regulated organization...
...words, and was promptly interrupted. George Bender was sorry, but he wondered if someone would come forward to lead the singing. He waited all of two or three seconds for a volunteer, then lifted his arms−and his voice-in a rendition of God Be With You Till We Meet Again. It was a typical Bender performance...
...their helmets mounted guard in the city, the last truckloads of Foreign Legionnaires clattered across the mile-long Doumer Bridge over the flood-swollen Red River to join the rest of the French Viet Nam garrison 60 miles southeast at the port of Haiphong. There the French may stay till May, when under the Geneva agreements they must withdraw further south, below the Geneva dividing line at the 17th parallel, and leave all of north Viet Nam's rich rice bowl to the Reds...