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The criminal, 16-year-old, moronic Aaron Adams, is unimportant to the story. So are his two little-girl victims whom he picked up on their way to school. What really matters, says Jackson, is the effect of the crime, as the tabloids play all its angles across the board...
In the inflated U.S. economy, Wall Streeters consider stocks generally deflated, feel that the Big Board is selling the U.S. short. Item: Standard Oil (N.J.), with indicated 1948 earnings of $16 a share, is now selling at $84-only a bit more than five times earnings. Many another stock, with...
The book is composed chiefly of worrywarts' case histories. Samples: ¶ Mr. H. J. Englert of Tell City, Ind. got scarlet fever, then nephritis ("a kidney disease"), ran his blood pressure up to 214. Doctors advised him to make sure that his "insurance was all paid up" and then...
Fall. Westinghouse Electric, following the lead of many another radiomaker, cut its radio prices from 13% to 20%. Samples: $79.95 retail for an AM-FM table model (formerly $99.95), $499.95 for a radio-phonograph combination (formerly $625).
¶Manhattan's Borough President Hugo Rogers decided that New York lamp posts were cluttered with too many signs. He drew up plans for a more beautiful lamp post on which signs too cluttered to read would be replaced by simple initials which almost nobody would understand (samples: NTB...