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...presence of his first major opportunity." He would hang for a moment on the microphone, holding it itchily, as if it were a snake. "His face was like a wet rag." His chest caved in, as if from the weight of the enormous zoot shoulders it bore, and a huge, floppy bow tie hung down like the ears of a spaniel. For a moment he would look among his audience, pleadingly, as if searching for his mother, and then he would begin, timidly and with trembling lips, to sing...
...Evidence that 1) Yale was sacked as governor because he used his position for excessive private profit, and 2) after he had seen his wife off alone for England, he lived in the same house with Mrs. Nicks and a Portuguese mistress, Hieronima de Paivia, who bore...
...announced that the two had been captured, and the Boss's Wife charged with espionage. In her pockets they found wads of drachmas and six well-thumbed photographs of five-year-old Joseph, sent to her by Niko since her arrival in Greece. On the back, each snapshot bore the date and the current weight of little Joseph...
...thousands reveled in the gaiety of Calgary's annual stampede one night last week, three black hearses rolled across the city to a downtown funeral home. Past oblivious, whoopee-making crowds, the hearses bore the bodies of seven U.S. schoolboys, victims of the worst mountain-climbing accident in Canada's history...
...phrase is gathering new meaning among U.S. businessmen. The phrase is "company raiding," but very few businessmen agree on a precise definition. Originally, the term was coined in the robber-baron days of the late1800s and bore connotations of watered stock, rigged markets, stolen company assets. Today, some businessmen use the phrase to describe shrewd investors who snap up an undervalued company with the idea of liquidating it for a quick profit; others apply it to investors who take over such firms and ram through drastic changes to improve the properties and turn in bigger profits. The phrase has been...