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Many experts who originally expected the market to establish a floor at the 450 level only to see it tumble another ten points thought that it might slip as far as 430 on the average before starting back up. Said Harry Comer, market analyst for Wall Street's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis: "Last week's unloading was not yet the old-fashioned selling climax which paves the way for a subsequent rise...
...first printing of 500,000 copies was marred in two places by having drawings transposed, including two illustrating artificial respiration, and by minor errors in five other drawings, all duly noted on a loose, easily lost errata slip...
...John Dioguardi used to extort his spending money by tipping over pushcarts until harried street peddlers paid him to lay off. Payoffs got bigger later on, but essentially Johnny Dio remained a pushcart upsetter. Many a New York City 'trucking firm decided that it would be cheaper to slip a Dio mobster a few grand than to get stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers...
People just wouldn't believe him, decided the law professor, and so for nearly a year he kept his little secret. Finally he let the word slip out to a friend. Last week all Brazil was abuzz about the reluctant claim of João de Freitas Guimaraes. 48. a wealthy, respected professor of Roman law at Santos' Catholic University. Did the professor really take an hour-long whirl through outer space in a flying saucer...
...blonde, and only 16. That summer of 1910, when the mornings were warm and clear, she would go down to the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Upper Savoy near Switzerland. With her was a bearded painter from Paris named Paul Chabas. At 8:30 a.m. she would slip out of her clothes and step into the chill water. The first time, she drew her body into an instinctive pose of protection against the cold. "Don't move!" cried the enchanted painter...