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Died. Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 59, baseball's fiery Black Irish spark-plug catcher and Lefty Grove's battery mate on Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics, who was sold in 1934 for $100,000 as player-manager to the second-division Detroit Tigers and in four seasons drove the team to two American League pennants (plus two second places) and their first World Series championship, but whose playing career was abruptly ended by a beanball in 1937; after a long illness; in Lake Forest...
...notorious landlady. When Bill overhears Carlye phone for two men to carry out something that weighs 160 lbs., he gets rather queasy about the evening cookout. He sloshes his Scotch from cheek to cheek like a chipmunk hoarding for a famine and finally gulps it like a plug of tobacco. His pouring hand is so erratic with the lighter fluid that he practically charcoal-broils the house...
...rewrite, so as to give business a better tax break, the depreciation schedules on industrial equipment. It has promised such a revision by July 6. and it can deliver on that vow by executive action, without the approval of Congress. Far more important is overall tax reform, which would plug the loopholes in the present code and lower :he rates on both the personal income tax and the corporation tax. The tax reform bill was originally promised for mid-1962, has now unfortunately been postponed at least until late 1962. Moving ahead at a faster pace on broad tax reform...
Coral Buses & Floor Shows. However many papers Chalk does sell in Puerto Rico, they will reach the island aboard Trans Caribbean Airways, another Chalk enterprise. Chalk likes to have his multifarious businesses give one another a helping hand. His newspapers can be expected to plug Trans Caribbean. Similarly, Trans Caribbean once had ticket counters in the offices of Washington's Chalk-owned D.C. Transit System, Inc. And D.C. Transit's buses, not surprisingly, will ultimately have a terminal in Chalk Center, a $27 million office building, hotel and shopping complex to be erected next year in southwest Washington...
...make a speech, Tribune Publisher and Owner John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, accepted his paper's fall from grace with more good humor than his editors had. As a result, he was alert enough to sneak in a plug for a paper that has been vastly improved under his aegis. "To ascribe as a reason [for the cancellation] that the President has time to read just so many newspapers," said Whitney, "just doesn't jibe with the fact that on the Eastern seaboard the Tribune is the paper everyone...