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Secret Cash. At a tense session in the House of Commons, Industry Secretary Varley denied having "nodded anything through" that was connected with overseas payoffs. A British Leyland financial executive named Graham Barton later admitted that he had forged the Ryder letter. But he insisted that he had done so only to emphasize "what I regarded as a national scandal," and maintained that other documents cited in the Daily Mail story were genuine...
Those included what was described as a confidential company report prepared by Barton outlining a system for making "special payments" out of Switzerland to British Leyland distributors and agents. Among the abuses mentioned was a practice of overbilling distributors so that they would appear to have little taxable profit; secret cash payments would then be "suitcased" to them-literally carried in satchels-or deposited in numbered bank accounts in Switzerland or Liechtenstein...
...midst of a fray of adequate imitation Elizabethan costumes, topped off by sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets...
...Frederick D. Barton '71 had refused to concede his race for the Maine First District Congressional seat to one-term incumbent Republican David M. Emery. But with 64 per cent of the vote in, Barton had received only 38 per cent...
Franklin Roosevelt made his name a catch-phrase joke, but Hamilton Fish is still battling for the last laugh. A flinty New York conservative and 13-term member of the House (1920-45), Fish helped inspire the celebrated 1940 Roosevelt refrain citing Congressmen "Martin, Barton and Fish" as three banes of New Deal legislation. Now a sprightly 87, Fish recently surfaced with a new book lambasting Roosevelt (F.D.R.: The Other Side of the Coin), and he shows no signs of slowing down. Last week the hardy widower announced plans to marry Alice Curtis Desmond, 79, a friend of 40 years...