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...operating companies (Duquesne Light, Wisconsin Public Service, Oklahoma Gas & Electric). In the next two steps, Boshell plans to liquidate the $4 preferred by a similar payoff, and then the common. By mid-1953 he hopes to end Standard's existence-and his own job. Under Boshell's shrewd management, Standard's once "worthless common" is again listed on the Big Board, has shot up from 75? to last week's price of 16¾. The $7 preferred has more than doubled; the $6 preferred rose from 86 to 188 while the $4 preferred rose from...
...scarred and blood-soaked central front last week, the tirelessly burrowing Chinese Reds eluded the full brunt of U.N. artillery and air by shrewd use of caves, tunnels, deep approach trenches. They attacked mostly at night, when U.N. close-support planes were on the ground. Flares, star shells, tracers and the full moon gave some light, but not enough for the day-loving U.N. The Chinese used mortar smokeshells to hide their movements by day. On attack, they advanced recklessly through their own or U.N. artillery fire, and when Communist and U.N. units were closely engaged, the Chinese put their...
...Unhappy State." The sense of vacuum resulted partly from the State Department's tendency to postpone hard decisions; but shrewd foreign offices abroad also hesitated to accept promises from or make commitments to a State Department whose mandate was hanging on an election. And so, without effective prodding from the U.S., the European Army plan languished, unratified by the two most important nations in it, France and Germany. France aired its grievances against the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 3); NATO adjured its member nations to meet their 1952 armament targets, and feared they wouldn't. In Britain last week...
...plantation Clyde had coveted when he passed it on the river. When he made the deal to buy it, he had also seduced the widow who owned it, but if ever a man reformed for good, it was Clyde. He was not only a model husband but a shrewd businessman. Of course, stepson Bushrod turned out to be a caddish sponger, but stepdaughter Gary was the joy of Clyde's heart. Lucy was loving, but she could not give Clyde a child...
Bricker's opponent is ex-Price Stabilization chief Michael V. DiSalle. One of the most colorful political figures in the country, the five-foot-five, 215 lb. Toledo butterball is noted for his shrewd political sense and good humor. A son of an Italian immigrant, DiSalle makes no bones about his ancestry. He is introduced as "Toledo's best amateur spaghetti cook." When a heckler asked him if he were a member of the Mafia, he replied...