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...that RFC has a new and vigorous boss, a lot of skeletons are coming out of the closet. Last week, Administrator W. Stuart Symington opened the door on what looked like the biggest, ugliest skeleton of all: RFC's $87 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, largest ever given to any U.S. railroad, during the regime of Jesse Jones. In the last eight years, the B. & 0. has paid back only $6,800,000, although the road is fat with profits. (Other roads have paid back 80% of their RFC loans...
...flees the heights. Those who seek partial beauty in the secular ornaments of music are entitled to use the glorious Eliot Tower--granted a favored position by those who know not what they worship. Those who seek the more basic truth, shifty and apologetic, must beg a subterranean clothes-closet...
...fire apparently originated in a second floor closet, Deputy Fire Chief Timothy White state yesterday...
Skeleton In the Closet. In Columbus, Ohio, a deputy sheriff saw John Dyer carefully signal before making a right turn in his automobile, stopped him to present one of the city's safety awards, discovered he had no driver's license, hauled him into court...
Harvard University has the "most perfect" human skeleton somewhere in its closet, and Carroll M. Williams, association professor of Zoology, would like to know exactly where...