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Beautifully executed pins in the middle weights provided the day's top excitement. At 147, Harvard's Jim Gaffney was wrestling a pretty even match with John McMullen when the Columbian gained a sudden take down and pin...
...housebound housewife, trapped in Outer Suburbia without a car and still desperately in need of a bobby pin or a bottle of shampoo, the Shopmobile will soon be rolling to the rescue. Built for the McCrory Corp., which controls a nationwide empire of retail stores including Lerner Stores, Economy Auto Supply and 600 five and tens, this 1962 version of the old country peddler looks like a city bus with show windows, has hip-wide aisles and every available inch of interior wall space festooned with hardware, notions, toilet items, toys. It will also carry a catalogue from which bulkier...
...getting harder these days to tell a pin-striped banker from a shirt-sleeved discount-house salesman. With big bold ads, U.S. bankers who used to talk in dignified whispers are filling newspapers and airwaves with offers of higher interest rates on personal savings accounts. They are out to take business away from the faster-growing savings and loan associations, whose deposits since 1950 have swollen 500% (to $71 billion) while deposits in commercial banks have increased 200% (to $76 billion...
Such incantations make it difficult to pin down the S.A.O.'s ideas. In literature...
...current appraised value as a deduction from taxable income, then keep the paintings in their homes for life (TIME, Nov. 24). But many a giver wants to get an extra measure of tax advantage by inflating the value of the gift. The method is to get an "expert" to pin a false appraisal on the work; the Government has not often questioned the appraisals. In one case, a dealer sold a painting for $7,000, but at once appraised it, for the purchaser's philanthropic "tax purposes," at $24,000. In another case, an artist, giving three...