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...week the grand jury demanded overhaul of the city's police force. Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, with a calculating eye on the coming election, quickly obliged, starting with the ouster of ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's police commissioner, William P. O'Brien. Out of thin air he produced a new commissioner who pleased the jurors just fine: hard-hitting, splendidly mustachioed Thomas F. Murphy, recently resigned federal prosecutor, who had won the conviction of Alger Hiss...
Weathermen predict that the layer, which starts at an altitude of 10,000 feet and is itself 2,500 feet thick, will gradually thin and be forced out to sea by the same Canadian breezes which brought it here in the first place...
...next book on the pile was thin and green, with an H. carefully blacked in with pencil on the front. French Grammar for the College Student. He flipped open the cover; somebody had written "Ou est le W. C.?" inside. Pretty good course, that had been. Neat guys--real jokers. That was the kind of thing you probably remembered about College. He weighed the book in his hand; it was small and handy, printed on exceptionally light paper. It wouldn't really take up too much space. Vag held the book a minute more, and then let it slip back...
...York Giant baseball fans are a faithful lot whose loyalty has been stretched pretty thin for the past twelve years. While the Giants floundered around in the lower depths of the National League, the Giant fan has had to live on memories of Manager John McGraw's fighting teams and of such great pitchers as Christy Mathewson, Fred Fitzsimmons and Carl Hubbell...
...research in new techniques, Ottinger has done more than any other man to raise the once-despised plywood to its present lofty status. By binding plywood to metal, Ottinger and his technicians opened up new markets for the material (in trains, truck bodies and shipping containers). They perfected a thin hardwood veneer as flexible as cloth, turned out a wall covering that cannot be distinguished from solid paneling. They even turned out plywood pipe, got $5,000,000 worth of orders for it in World War II as a light, portable radar mast. Of the 20 basic plywood and related...