I come from a very large family (three brothers, three sisters, about as many aunts and uncles, and loads more cousins and nieflings) almost all of whom I've fallen out of contact with and honestly don't feel bad about it.

In his zany prop comedy Gallagher would sometimes smash watermelons and splatter the front rows of the audience.

But the Hitlerphobia horrified him to such a degree that he lost contact with reality. He was paralyzed. He waited eleven days , till 7/3/1941, till he was in a condition to talk a to the people.

Is there any justification (other than the inevitability of some errors) for billion-dollar misacquisitions, such as Exxon's purchase of Reliance Electric or Sohio's purchase of Kennecott?