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...preferred stock, has $25 million in cash, and this year will probably show a net income of $15 million after all fixed charges. The future looked so bright that Crowley announced a $2 dividend on the common stock, the first the Milwaukee has paid in 33 years. Obviously, shrewd Leo Crowley hoped that grateful stockholders, when they get voting power in May, would vote continuance of his regime...
...major U.S. literary figures, Sandburg, during a long productive life, has developed least as a writer, changed least as a man. His poetry, dredged raw from the look and experience of "the people," is from start to finish a shrewd, tender, cantankerous and lovingly slangy impressionist folk-portrait. Even his monumental biography, Abraham Lincoln, ungainly and near-noble, is a research-buttressed prose poem to a people's hero and many of its cadenced passages are as good poetry as Sandburg has ever written. Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from...
Part of this attitude may well stem from pure Hopalongishness-a state of mind which has caused Boyd to cease all personal appearances at which his "friends" are charged an admission. But part of it is shrewd business practice. Boyd has no illusions that his popularity can continue at its present rate and he hopes to convert Hoppy from a television idol into a brand name before the roof falls...
...Maritime Commission had done so well that buyers became interested. In 1945 a syndicate headed by Charles U. Bay, now Ambassador to Norway, bid the flattering sum of $8,600,000. But shrewd, red-faced Stanley Dollar, who had been enviously watching the line's balance sheets throughout the war, had different ideas...
...outstanding defensive strategist, Hickman has been recognized as a shrewd offensive technician as well since replacing Howie Odell at Yale. Last winter, he worked out the details of his split-T formation offense, which was introduced at fall practice and used successfully up until last Saturday. The split-T involves a half back, stationed well outside the end, who becomes a man-in-motion threading his way through the backfield on practically every play. This system is well-suited to tricky reverses and laterals, for the wingback can either take a hand off from one of the other backs, fake...