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Twice each year, after the deluge of term bills, a handful of bankrupt undergraduates scurry over to University and Lehman Halls for loans to meet their expenses. For non-veterans these University loans present the best possible solution to financial problems. But for the veteran, waiting patiently for a wayward government check, the current lending arrangement imposes an unnecessary burden on his slim resources...
...sure about one thing: if I die in jail they will just forget all about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money but for art's sake." The money was nothing to sneeze at, either. Though he declared himself bankrupt two years ago, Van Meegeren had made $2,800,000 with his crooked brush...
...Hollywood is a fisherman with an expensive rod," wrote Producer Dudley Nichols (Mourning Becomes Electro) in the New York Times, "and it will not sit all day and go bankrupt and bait its hook with what the fish don't want. And this fisherman has found [that] the abundant fishing is in the troubled waters of adolescence and all its concomitants-violence for the sake of violence . . . physical action for the sake of action . . . glamor that is not beauty, sex with a snicker. . . . Don't blame Hollywood for all this: blame yourselves...
Died. John Joseph ("Jack") Dunne, 57, beer baron of the Dry Decade; during an operation; in Jersey City. Dunne kept a number of giant Jersey breweries running during Prohibition, bootlegged his way to a $15 million fortune, discreetly retired in 1930 when gangstering got too hot for him, went bankrupt eleven years later...
Cried the New York Daily News: "It is comparable to the piratical prices the British-Dutch rubber cartels used to charge for their products. This stickup game is going on . . . at a time when we are . . . straining plenty of nerves, including financial ones, to keep Great Britain from going bankrupt." What had caused the News to sound its A was the price of cocoa. Some U.S. chocolate manufacturers and traders on New York's cocoa exchanges were just...