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...people suffering for years. You examine the children's hair to see whether it is dry and brittle; when a child starts to go, his hair loses oil and it cracks easily. You look down at people's feet to see how many are pus-laden and split by wind or frost. Most of all you listen to the quality of their silence. The longer the trek, the more intense the silence, the more deadly the apathy...
...bundle of bills to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, dropped it on the bed and looked out the window. Other Hollywood tycoons got into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million dollars...
...Wall Street brokerage houses one day last week traders watched Louisville & Nashville Railroad common soar 7¾ points, close at $110-up $40 from its 1944 low. Two days later L. & N. directors decided to split the $100 par value blue chip stock two shares for one, the first major split in a rail stock since that...
...stock split started Wall Street buzzing with rumors that L. & N. would soon be merged with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., which controls 51% of L. & N. stock. But L. & N. directors denied the rumor. Their only announced reason for cutting the value of the stork 50%: more investors can now afford...
...their scramble for points, many of this season's well-tutored fives employ several different types of offense, and make split-second adjustments from one to another as the situation demands. To offset the fluid offenses, coaches have rigged fluid defenses, in which the players shift back & forth from zone defense to man-to-man, with variations. Even the old set plays have acquired delicate subtleties comparable to the different blocking assignments that give a football team half a dozen kinds of off-tackle plays from one basic pattern...