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Lionel, biggest toy train maker, expects to sell more trains (about $10 million worth) than the whole industry sold in its best prewar year. For grownup buffs, Chicago's Varney Scale Models Inc. invested $50,000 in drawings and dies for a new locomotive model. It has already sold 1,000 kits of parts at $100 each...
...some candy. He called the cops, then drove her on into a police ambush at Madill, Okla. Eva surrendered meekly-the pistol was unloaded. "I was tired of school," she said, "and I decided to be an outlaw." ¶ At Bangor, Me., 14-year-old Francis Edwin Varney was charged with murdering his 12-year-old sister with a sharp kitchen knife. ¶ In The Bronx, three teen-age Negro girls, members of a gang known as the "Fivies," were charged with mugging a shopkeeper named Samuel Flamenbaum. Said he: one girl crooked an arm around his neck, choked...
Spectators tomorrow night will be watching one of New England's greatest centers in Charley Tibbs, six foot two standout. Fred Jenkins, another outstanding star, and Phil Varney will be at forward, with Phil Gomez and Henry Pecheux pairing at the guards. All except Gomez are seniors, and the whole team has a reputation as ball handlers and excellent shots...
...path of the hurricane that swept New England last fall were, among other things, several State teachers' colleges of which Mr. Reardon has charge. To repair the damage to them, it was estimated by the Education Department's business agent, one George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon...
...last fall, said he, Governor Charles Francis Hurley told him: "You're not an expert. . . . Mr. Varney is not an expert. We need a man to take charge of this." Selected to "take charge'' was Architect Edward T. P. Graham, who had previously done work for Boston politicians. Month later, said Commissioner Reardon, Governor Hurley telephoned him: "Mr. Graham is on his way to your office with the contracts. You stay there and sign them...