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Jack Kennedy's financial status has always been kept pretty much a closed bankbook. But last week the public got at least a peek into the President's purse -and it appeared pretty full. Working on information provided him by the Kennedy family and making some educated guesses, Washington Correspondent Fletcher Knebel wrote a seven-article series about the President's finances for the Des Moines Register and the Minneapolis Tribune. Knebel estimated Kennedy's worth at about $10 million, thanks mostly to trust funds set up years ago by Joseph P. Kennedy...
Considering national security, Harris claimed that present policy "favors the bankbook over national survival." He explained, "defense spending is still below 1953 levels, while the Soviet's military threat has risen, and in contrast to rapid Soviet economic growth, this country's production has risen an average of only 1 1/2 per cent a year under the Republicans...
...Hotel, off Fifth Avenue, as Martin Collins of Daytona Beach, Fla. On June 21 Agent Edward Boyle, of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, ordered to make a routine arrest of an illegal alien, found Abel in his hotel room along with a short-wave radio receiver and a bankbook showing deposits of $15,000. Checking Abel's pockets, Boyle discovered $6,000 and a clothing store receipt addressed to Emil Goldfus. "Who's he?" asked Boyle. "That's me," said Abel calmly...
...Pauper Profit. In Detroit, arrested after he tried to mooch a nickel from a passerby, Panhandler Genter Adams turned over $166 in cash and a bankbook with a $5,728 balance to cops for safekeeping, chose a 90-day jail term instead of a $100 fine, explained: "I can't afford to take all that money out of the bank with the interest rates so high...
...long before Cronin's Scottish conscience began to ride him horribly. Against his swollen bankbook he could posit nothing, on the moral side, except occasional free work and the persuading of "two errant wives to return to their long-suffering husbands." Along with the plaguey conscience came an equally debilitating ulcer. Cronin decided it was time for him to clean house. He sold his rich practice, rented a lonely farmhouse in Scotland, and settled down to write a heartfelt novel about "the tragic record of a man's egotism and bitter pride...