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...merely balding, "round, mahog insignificant-any-tanned [and] smiling." Somewhere in between, you will find Jesse Craig, the 48-year-old protagonist of Shaw's latest bestselling novel. Craig's last two films bombed for $8,000,000; his estranged wife has grown accustomed to his checkbook; his mistress may be getting bored with his body. So Craig does the only logical thing: he flees to the Cannes Film Festival to mend his fortunes...
...mention picking up the check for Churchill's frequent vacations in Marrakech. Was it worth it? LIFE's circulation department found that the memoirs had a "devastating effect" on newsstand sales. But, says Elson, "Luce took a more elevated view. At a time when checkbook journalism was running strong and competition for the war leaders was fierce, LIFE landed the first one and, by all measurements, the finest...
...each recess; the cellars resound with prerecorded mutters, wails and injunctions to silence; entrepreneurs tap their way down the corridors, prodding each moulding in the hope that a panel will fly open, revealing a lost Titian, an undocumented Goya, or a Japanese gingko-nut tycoon with an open checkbook. Collectors do not want the taxman to know how much they paid for what, and neither do dealers. The availability of a painting may be the occasion for as much conspiratorial hoo-ha and discreetly vicious elbowing as anything in the annals of industrial espionage. It is fun. It becomes...
...compute distance ratios on his maps; a Florida-based jet pilot keeps his in the cockpit to reckon flight times. But the calculators became a sales sizzler only when general consumers, once again proving their fascination with small electronic gadgetry, decided that they would also make handy checkbook balancers, income tax figurers and math-course timesavers. About half a million mini-calculators have been sold in the past year, and the total is expected to grow to 3,000,000 units...
...estimated $4 billion-far more than bank robbers get with guns. Using stolen or bogus drivers' licenses and other faked identification, "paper hangers" have found merchants-who are naturally anxious to ring up sales and cannot easily verify such fakes-especially easy targets. And even if checkbook bilkers are later caught, convictions are hard to get because many suspects cannot be identified to the satisfaction of courts. Now two new devices on the market are enabling stores to record identification that even the cleverest forger cannot fake: his thumbprint. The systems cannot prevent the acceptance of bum checks...