Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...J. F. FLEMMING
...rather goofed, but the news is good news all the same. J. Bracken Lee was six times mayor of Price, Utah [pop. 6,000] and not Salt Lake City, as reported in issue...
...Kaplan's agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered at bureau headquarters. There, suave, mouse-browed Director Frederick J. Loughran and Inspector Bert Smith told him about a "new system." Seligman was simply to pay Loughran "a couple of thousand dollars" to kill the summons. When he protested, an inspector told him: "If you don't pay up, you will have to give 16 ounces to the pound...
Automobile sales will rise to 7,000,000 from 6,000,000 this year, in line with the rising U.S. population and a 6% increase in disposable personal income, said Louis J. Paradise, chief statistician for the U.S. Department of Commerce. But car production will be held down for several months because of the steel strike...
...Betta Kappa Honor Society yesterday elected the following Harvard seniors: Michael J. Atkiss, of Dunster House and Brooklyn, N.Y., a concentrator in Biology; Edward M. Baum, of Quincy House and Evansville, Indiana, Architectural Sciences; Paul A. Buttenweiser, of Quincy House and New York City, History and Literature; Joel D. Cooper, of Lowell House and Charleston, W. Va., Chemistry; Paul D'Andrea, of Lowell House and Belmont, Physics; Patrick Henry III, of Lowell House and Dallas, Tex., History and Literature; Richard B. Hines, of Lowell House and New York City, Romance Languages...