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Wade said, "He then--the bus, he asked the bus driver to stop, got off at a stop, caught a taxicab, Driver Click--I don't have the exact place--and went to his home in Oak Cliff, changed his clothes hurriedly, and left...
...others into British companies that contracted for large amounts of oil from Allied. In Manhattan the brokerage house of J. R. Williston & Beane, which lost heavily in its dealings with Allied, had to be merged into the stronger Walston & Co. And in Chicago, authorities refused an operating license to Oak Crest Refining Corp., a venture in which DeAngelis is one-third owner, on grounds that one of the officers was associated with oth er enterprises that were infiltrated by gangsters...
Installation of the new organ will require considerable renovation of Appleton Chapel, Ferris said. The side chambers, where pipes are now locate, will be plastered so that there will be loss absorption by the walls. The case of the organ, freestanding and claborately carried of oak, will be placed against the east wall of the Chapel...
...linden and oak symbolized Old Germany, the emblem today is the Gummibaum (rubber plant), whose leaves luxuriate in the central heating of millions of spanking-new apartments. The nation has no motto; Gott mit Uns went the way of the spiked helmet, and the closest thing to a watchword in a devoutly neat country is "Vorsicht! Frisch Gebohnert" (Careful! Freshly Waxed). Well-to-do Germans are drinking more heavily, apparently to fight the frustrations of wealth; sociologists speak of Wohlstandsalkoholismus-prosperity alcoholism...
...Lizzie, Inga Swenson plays what the contradictory script calls for, a kind of shrinking oak. Rainmaker Robert Horton lacks the magical potency to make an audience believe in belief, and Agnes De Mille's dances are tired shoeings from her too-familiar rodeography. Only the wistfully melodic score by Broadway newcomers Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones has what the show is parched for-heart...