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...year-long antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950), Railroad Magnate Robert R. Young was in a saucy mood. Taking the stand to argue that competitive bidding on railroad bonds should be compulsory, Young last week fixed a cross-examining defense counsel with a stare. Said Young icily: "You are one of the few men here who is wiser than I am." Federal Judge Harold R. Medina cuffed him right back. Young's campaign to get competitive bidding on the Cincinnati Union Terminal Association in 1939, said Medina, had been "absolutely erroneous and stated something...
Although they have been tried successfully in other parts of the continent, Little River dogs have never become very popular away from home. But in their own territory, people turn to stare at a hunter who works with any other dog than a toller. In Yarmouth County, at least, the hard-working dogs are appreciated. Any good duck hunter knows that given half a chance, a Little River dog will guarantee him his legal bag limit of seven birds...
...critical point of her visit. When kindly old Paul Wooton of the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced coyly during a speech of welcome that her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, was "master of his own house," she gave Wooton what could only be described as a gelid and queenly stare. But she smiled as he finished, listened gracefully to four more speeches...
...resignation as Prime Minister. His three-week. Truman-style tour through the provinces had left him pale and exhausted. Three nights before, he had made his last campaign speech in Waltham-stow and sat on the platform afterwards with head in hand, too beaten to do more than stare in mild astonishment as a rabble-rousing platform mate ranted about "millions in America who can't afford to buy butter." Election night he went to a local Socialist club to hear the returns. He sat with his back to the board, seldom turning to watch it. Every now & then...
Time was when a Radcliffe girl could get up in the morning, brush her teeth, and go downstairs to stare at a fried egg in stony silence. The egg generally seemed to be staring back, and after bumming a cigarette from a friend, she could make her nine o'clock class with five minutes to spare...