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...buyers of the Pullman Co.'s $80 million fleet of cars, scuttlebutt added the name of Detroit's auto body builders, the Fisher Brothers. The five vigorous Fishers, with an estimated $250 million to invest, are looking for good businesses to buy. They now own a big chunk of stock in Baldwin Locomotive Works, have an eye on Hudson Motor...
...Senate, veteran white-thatched Chief Clerk John Crockett droned through the 21 major recommendations, while bored and busy Senators drifted out. Soon only a dozen remained. Clerk Crockett adroitly skipped a sizable chunk of the message (24 pages), wound up in 23 minutes flat...
...onetime Naval intelligence lieutenant -now under federal indictment for a suspected part in departmental leaks (TIME, June 18)-26-year-old Author Roth is a passionate, informed, biased and frequently angry witness. A large chunk of his book is given over to a savage recapitulation of the "naive" prewar Tokyo policies of ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew: a "handsome . . . distinguished elderly gentleman" who is, to Author Roth, "the personification of the predominant school of American policy toward Japan...
Harvard has its Murphy Scholarship and has usually been able to find a bright little Murphy to win the stipend. But someone named Leavenworth once gave Yale a chunk of fortune to ensure the blessings of the higher education for his descendants-and Yale is stuck without a Leaven-worth...
...important chunk of that business was Mr. Soong's brand-new, still secret treaty with Soviet Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On its content and origins, Prime Minister Soong was mum. But Washington buzzed with accounts which threw the clearest light yet on the nature and purpose of official U.S. policy in Asia. The gist...