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...knew just where to look for accomplices. He invited babyfaced, 17-year-old Muriel ("Pickles") Downs and 15-year-old Peggy Byrns to join him. Muriel's family were "strict" and made her go to prayer meetings twice a week, but her father had a .22-caliber target pistol and Peggy's divorced mother owned a 1935 La Fayette coup...
...Butcher"--four miles high in the Peruvian Andes--is the vacation-time target of four Mountaineering Club students...
...with the many women who caught his eye. ("My grandfather had 125 wives and 300 children," Bao Dai once remarked to a journalist. "I have a few mistresses. What then?") He played golf capably and bridge like a master. A crack shot with rifle or revolver, he often arranged target competitions with the château's servants...
Faced with rising costs and low returns on endowment, many a U.S. college and university knows that it must raise more money or retrench. Last week, after a hard squint at the future, Yale University announced its target for the decade 1950-60: a massive $80 million in new gifts to help the university keep on growing...
Bull's Eye. Last week, Pomerantz was ready to collect again. This time his target was Textron Incorporated's Royal Little, who had parlayed a Providence rayon yarn dyeing mill into a $54 million, 20-odd plant textile empire. Textron's baffling labyrinth of foundations and "charitable" trusts had been investigated by Congress, but nobody had ever explored it with such profit as Pomerantz. As usual, he was representing a small (50 shares) stockholder, a Mrs. Lillian Berger of Boston. She, through Pomerantz, charged that Little and his family had been enriched by profits which should have...