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...between ex tinction and new adventure, carousing officers of Guatemala's ragged Liberation Army rolled merrily through the doors of La Locha, a much-favored Guatemala City bordello. Once inside, they discovered that half a dozen young military cadets had engaged the attentions of La Locha's choicest residents. Waving pistols and machine guns, the Liberators dragged the unhappy cadets into the corridors, forced them to strip and dance an incongruous cancan. When the cadets were finally freed, they dashed off to the Eseuela Politecnica (Guatemala's West Point), aroused their fellow cadets and told them...
...bonanza enjoyed by all oilmen. This is the depletion allowance which permits them to pocket 27½% of their gross income (up to 50% of their net) before paying a cent of taxes. Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project...
...suit any reader's taste. Mystery fans will probably find "The White Rabbit Caper" most to their liking. Out Spading Spade, it begins, "Fred Fox was pouring himself a slug of rye when he door of his office opened and in hopped old Mrs. Rabbit . . ." One of the choicest in the autobiographical vein is a little item called "There's a Time for Flags, or (Notes of a man who bought a curious Christmas gift)." The Thurber Diaries are like none other: "Dec. 15--Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock I bought an American flag, five feet by three...
...press, rumors are often the apėritifs and canapės that come before a feast of news. Last week Argentines were enjoying the headiest, spiciest assortment of rumors since last April, when President Juan Perón survived a crisis of bomb-throwing by his enemies. The choicest tidbits...
...your superb tribute to Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in TIME [May 25] may I, for the record, add one of Dr. Fosdick's choicest epigrams, from a sermon which he preached in the Riverside Church nearly 25 years ago? . . . Said Dr. Fosdick, "It is magnificent to grow old-if one keeps young!" And now, a quarter of a century later, on his 75th birthday, Dr. Fosdick has become the finest personification of his own meaningful epigram. WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD Executive Secretary Associated Church Press New York City