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...pledge, Jeanne has just what the sorority wants: good looks, clothes, social poise, a well-to-do father, and a mother who was a Tri U herself and has never forgotten it. In the end, Jeanne, after seeing how Tri U snubs "social inferiors," is disenchanted enough to turn in her pledge pin and rush to the arms of a worthy young fellow (Dale Robertson) who, far from belonging to a fraternity, does not even own a tuxedo...
...Tri-Cities named Captain Ed Smith its top college choice in the annual draft by National Basketball Association clubs. Smith played on the varsity for three years and toured with the College All-Star team this year. His coach, Norm Shepard, predicted that Smith will make an excellent professional player...
Such are the ways of Wall Street that the actual book value of these stocks means little. From 1942 to 1948, Selected common enjoyed a 1,800% rise, from 25? to $4.75-though not until this year have any earnings been passed on to the common stockholders. Tri-Continental common's rise has been almost as spectacular: $5,000 invested in 1942 would be worth nearly $75,000 today. But the most fantastic speculation of all is Tri-Continental warrants, which merely entitle their holders to buy 1.27 shares of Tri-Continental common at $17.76. Tri-Continental common...
Baited Hook. Most speculators have bought or sold Tri-Continental and Selected stocks "for the move," without bothering to find out just what they were buying, or even wondering what Randolph and his colleagues might be doing in their Broadway headquarters. But two months ago, Randolph did something that sent many a stockholder scurrying to find out what he held. Randolph proposed that Selected Industries be merged with Tri-Continental...
Wiesenberger lost his battle. At successive meetings, a majority of both companies voted to approve Randolph's merger. Last week, as Tri-Continental took over Selected's assets, it became the biggest closed-end trust in the U.S. ($144 million in assets) and fifth among all US trusts.* With that big fish in his creel, Francis Randolph this week was planning some other business-a month of salmon fishing in the Pyrenees...