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...case, authorities traced Miller to his mother's home in Soperton, Ga. There, four days after the crime, FBI men and the county sheriff found him and Rosalie. Miller, who had shaved off his mustache, was hiding under some burlap in the back of a pickup truck. He denied all charges, insisted that he had left Connecticut because work there had "played out." At week's end, Westport police went to Georgia to pick...
...elder Englands occupy a white frame eight-room house just a quarter of a mile away. The Englands raise soybeans, corn, wheat, have 60 head of Herefords, 150 hogs and 41 Appaloosa horses. They have a heavy investment in machinery and rolling stock, including a $9,000 combine, two pickup trucks, a 2½-ton truck and three tractors. Helen England raises German shepherd dogs, earned $2,300 last year, and used part of the money to buy new bedroom furniture. They have an automatic washer and dryer, wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room, vinyl tile...
...Hurts Too Much." Some brokers argued that it would take no more than a rise in prices to get the public off its hands and back into the market. Hardly anyone, however, expects a pickup before the end of the year. The only consolation seems to be that the slump is forcing brokerage houses to streamline operations, cut out the dead wood and seek new efficiency. Said one stock salesman: "I got into this business during the boom years. Now for the first time I have to get out and hoof it, and, by golly. I'm learning...
...tour was a ruddy marvel. The five-week campaign carried them from the towers of Manhattan to the arch of the Golden Gate, from the green hills of Stratford, Conn., to the quiet lanes of Philadelphia. They gamely took on all comers, from the New York Giants to a pickup squad of actors and writers at the Bucks County (Pa.) Playhouse Inn. The result after a dozen matches: a dozen triumphs for the Britons. "It appears," said British Team Captain Peter Freeman with sovereign contempt, "that America's best players are only slightly superior to America's worst...
Back came a meek refusal from Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, the President's consultant on physical fitness: "This chal lenge is appreciated, but it would be most difficult to assemble here a pickup team that would offer any challenge at all to such a redoubtable group as yours." Last week, when the British winkers met the likes of S. J. Perelman and Stage Director-Producpr Mike Ellis in Bucks County, there was a hint of opposition. Perelman lost with a debonair, hand-in-pocket flair; Ellis' keen squidging eye and steady wrist made...