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Dragons Jones and Kornegay were not much better off. Jones was accused of using Klan funds to buy a Cadillac and a station wagon, making personal use of a fund raised for a Klansman indicted in a bombing, and pocketing outrageous profits on sales of satin Klan robes-without turning in a corporate-tax return. Kornegay, it appeared, had been forced to flee to Virginia from North Carolina, where, as lecturer for the Klan, he had set up an insurance company, sold policies to Klansmen, then failed to reimburse them when the company was disbanded...
Gracious, lively and charming, said the reviewers in 1931 when the brother-and-sister act last went on in Broadway's The Band Wagon. Then the girl went off to get married, but Fred Astaire got along on his own. Now, 34 years later, at the biennial Philharmonic Ball in Rochester's Eastman mansion, Fred, 66, accepted the George Eastman House Award, then twinkled with Sister Adele Astaire Douglass, 67, through some of the old steps from Funny Face and Lady Be Good...
...thousands of offices and factories all over Italy, the visit of a friendly little salesman with a plain brown briefcase is as much a part of the workaday routine as the coffee wagon is in the U.S. He is the neighborhood cigarette peddler, and every week he makes his rounds with a fresh supply of Camels, Kents and Marlboros at prices ranging from 40? to 48? a pack. The same brands sell at 77? to 79? at the state-owned tobacconist's, for the state tobacco monopoly imposes a 35? duty on every legally imported pack of cigarettes, while...
Where Credit Is Due. This troika, powered by loans from the Chase Manhattan and other banks, has bought up or signed exclusive contracts with 500 jobbers. Those who hitch to Bluhdorn's wagon get several advantages: G. & W. gives them national advertising, marketing advice and long-term credits. Most important, it sells wholesale parts made by other manufacturers as well as its own, and promises overnight delivery...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...