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...Plans for the Central. There was no question about which other carrier they had their hearts set on. In a concentrated buying spree, Young, Kirby and Alleghany Corp. have bought upwards of 300,000 shares of the Central on the open market at a cost of about $6.000,000, are still buying more. Next to the C. & O., which bought another 400,000 shares of the Central last year (and now owns 800,000. more than 12% of the 6,447,410 outstanding), this made the Young group the largest stockholding interest...
...through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling ru mors. The happy-go-lucky are whoring and boozing in a last, sordid spree; the eccentrics are staging a comic opera and disguising themselves from death by dressing up as Pierrots, Harlequins, Columbines, clowns. One man is getting by (he hopes) insisting that a cholera epidemic does not exist. Most are being destroyed by their own suspicions, e.g., when Angelo thinks up a plan...
Nepenthe. In Detroit, John Vlaikov, 64, arrested for drunkenness, explained that he seldom drank, but had gone out on a spree after his wife Theresa, 70, came home and announced that she had just bought 35 hats and 40 dresses...
...Yale University junior is under arrest in Aurora, Colo., awaiting possible arraignment on attempted murder charges as a result of a wild shooting spree in front of his father's home Thursday night...
...main movement, the picture has all the drive of a .45 slug, but the comic interludes are mostly misfires. Paulette Goddard is agreeably bummy as an affluent madam, and Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular...