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Chin set, Dan Reed last week rapped his House Ways & Means Committee to order and set it to work. Although there was a long, grueling job ahead, New York's Congressman Reed was in a satisfied frame of mind. Reason: the committee was beginning the final phase of its complete revision of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, a pet project of Republican Reed, begun back in the summer of 1951. For six weeks the committee will meet in closed session to agree on changes in the code. Major changes approved last week: ¶ The entire code...
...Dan Reed's big project will undoubtedly remove some inequities and will provide increased incentive for investment. But it would be a mistake for anyone to assume that the revisions will eliminate all inequities. In a statute as complicated as the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, erasing one inequity often causes two others to show through...
...years of hobnobbing with fight managers and lesser figures of the pugilistic trade, Sports Editor Dan Parker of the N.Y. Daily Mirror has developed a fine ear for Manhattan's ringside speech and idiom. This week, in his column, Parker gave a health report on Armand Weill, manager of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, as told by "Al" Weill himself...
...editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune, Daniel B. Dowling, 47, is one of the best practitioners of the old-fashioned school of cartooning. Instead of blasting with broad, charcoal-black strokes like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Dan Fitzpatrick or the Washington Post's "Herblock," Dowling gently spoofs with fine-line ink strokes and light caricature. A lifelong Republican. Cartoonist Dowling, who is syndicated in more than 100 papers, is guilty of one big heresy. "I really miss Harry Truman," says he. "When he was President, there was a three-ring circus in Washington." Dowling...
Power Afloat. An inboard marine engine that its makers say delivers more power per pound than any other small marine engine was put on sale by Aerojet-General Corp.. Cincinnati, bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine weighs 160 Ibs.. develops 26.5 h.p.. and can push a 20-ft. boat, with four adults, at 30 m.p.h. Price...