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Price Boss Michael Di Salle this week unwrapped his long-awaited "master" regulation to fix the prices and profits of U.S. manufacturers. His 25,000-word order takes 75,000 manufacturers out from under the general price freeze of Jan. 26, places them, instead, under a complex system of profit margins...
Within a few months, his mother was found dead, murdered. Brown said she had been "nagging and fussing" at him to fix the windmill, admitted that he had "lost his head" and shot her. He was given a 40-to-55-year term in the State Penitentiary, but because he was a model prisoner, the governor three times reduced his sentence. Last week, while working on a garbage detail ten days before his release, Prisoner Brown got some news that would make his coming-out party a real success: he was about to become a rich man. The Magnolia Petroleum...
...after the crash last January, the Civil Aeronautics Administration recommended 63 modifications in each 202 (cost per plane, $15,000). It did not think the modification's serious enough to ground the planes at the time; but CAB said it would continue investigations, to see if it could fix the blame on the planes, the pilots, or poor maintenance...
...Chicago, tough Tony Accardo, reigning boss of the old Capone mob, bought himself a magnificent 22-room mansion (original cost: $500,000), in the swank suburb of River Forest, hired 20 decorators to fix up the place...
...scandals dredged up in the college basketball fix investigation (TIME, Feb. 26 et seq.) prompted the New York Times to take a long (20 columns) look at "the impact of athletics on education." Times Reporter Charles Grutzner, working with twelve bird-dogging assistants, spent 3½ weeks covering 40 college campuses. By last week he had flushed a covey of shockers...