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Whisky Parlay. The taxpayer, Hyman Harvey Klein of Los Angeles, was revealed as another of the financial wonder workers who are turning up in Washington these days. Klein testified that in 2½ years he parlayed a $1,000 investment into a $5,000,000 profit, through a brisk import business in Canadian whisky. His troubles began in 1946 when the Government charged him with black-markeeering and tax fraud. In 1948, the BIR, afraid that he would skip the country, slapped a $7,000,000 tax lien on his assets...
Harry Truman's March vacation at Key West was a success, by non-political standards. He managed to keep his work to a minimum and cut the number of visitors to a new low. The temperature was amiable, the water warm, and the poker brisk and profitable...
...Seldom are eight instrumentalists of sufficient calibre available at the same time, which explains why this monumental work receives so few performances. The Longy group, especially cellist George Finckel and bassoonist Theodore Schultz, played superlatively. Wisely ignoring many of the unnecessary repeat signs, the group gave a brisk, driving performance that left the audience breathless...
...days later, after brisk conferences with Turkey's ministers and military men and a hasty sightseeing tour, the general left Turkey, deeply impressed "at finding people with a will to fight if they have to." "We consider him 'our commander' now," said one admiring young Turk...
...Mick" Carney's fleet, the warships of four nations, was bobbing in Naples harbor after a week of brisk maneuvers during which former allies and enemies had worked together in smooth efficiency over the western Mediterranean. One incident had marred the maneuvers. When a British commander wanted an Italian commander to stop sending messages in code, he sent word: "Use plain language." The Italian thought his idiom was being criticized, and froze into sulky silence. Carney ruled that henceforth the proper NATO instruction should be "Do not encode...