Takeover bids sweep Britain as financiers seize big firms
British business braces for rapid takeovers as financiers bid high prices for shares in metal, printing, publishing, beer, shoes, ships, hotels, insurance and more. Harrods faces bids from Fraser and Debenhams. Debenhams offers about 96 million dollars, Fraser about 91 million.
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Harrods
London
Provinces
Hugh Fraser
Fraser
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Debenhams
Harrods Board of Directors
Scottish Union Insurance Co
The
Daily Mail
Literary Bandit Receives Six Months and Probation
John Clytus told Judge Gerald Levin he robbed the State Department of Unemployment office for publicity of his literary work. The judge imposed a six month jail term and five years of probation, warning that the act was not a proper way to gain attention for his magnum opus.
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San Francisco
John Clytus
Gerald Levin
State Department of Unemployment Office
Clytus
Greyhound
Opera Deseret plots Mormon settlers tale in New York
Leonard Kastle composes Deseret with Anne Howard Bailey as librettist. The opera portrays Brigham Young and Ann Eliza Webb in a story of Mormon settlement of the Southwest set for a New York theater run early next year.
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New York
Southwest
Deseret
Leonard Kastle
Anne Howard Bailey
Brigham Young
Ann Eliza Webb
Bishop Green Named State Chaplain for Arizona Knights
The Most Rev Francis J Green auxiliary bishop of the Tucson Diocese is named state chaplain for the Arizona Knights of Columbus. He will assume the post Wednesday succeeding Rev James Weber pastor of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Miami.
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Francis J. Green
Tucson
Arizona Knights of Columbus
Bishop Green
James Weber
Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church
Miami
Sigma Chemical Co Seeks One Million Fireflies
The Sigma Chemical Co plans to buy live fireflies for medical research at 25 cents per 100. Initial response was modest, but several nimble kids have started capturing lightning bugs in quantity to meet the demand.
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ST. Louis
Sigma Chemical Co
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