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...LAST MIGRATION (343 pp.)-Vincent Cronin-Dutton...
Braking Time. In Toronto, Mrs. Marion (Ma) Vincent admitted in court that she had been a bootlegger for 15 years, but declared: "I ceased selling liquor six months ago, and two months ago I definitely stopped...
Before a jury of seven men and five women in Harrisburg, Pa., Special Deputy Attorney General Vincent G. Panati produced a classic capsule example of how much personal prosperity can be skimmed off state highway construction, the nation's booming, graft-prone major public-works project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine...
...Hamm's Beer) like the show because it is economical ($10,000 a week) and usually bags a respectable rating. Actors like the show, despite a meager $250 stipend, because it requires no preparation, is fun to play, and gives them a welcome chance to ham it up. Vincent Price credits it with changing his career: he could get nothing but "heavy" roles until producers saw him clowning his way through successive performances on Pantomime Quiz...
...churches more crowded, or have they gained new members? The tourist-attracting Marble Collegiate Church of the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale finds its attendance up and notes a rise in new members referred from Crusade headquarters. But a random check of churches around town turns up little to indicate that New York City's permanent population of Protestants (7.5% of 8,000,000) is being significantly affected. In a representative sample of 37 of the city's 1;7OO Protestant churches, three churches report a total of eight new members, two report a slight increase in attendance...