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...after all, the collectors couldn't lose-even if there was not a Morgan or other rarity in the lot. All they had to do was turn their bag in to the nearest bank and get their handy paper money back. And this, to the Treasury's distress, was just what many...
...character acting." That was three years ago, and the first character was a homosexual barrister in Victim, which won Bogarde all sorts of praise. Then he groped floppishly through / Could go On Singing and The Mind Benders. Shaken, he signed to do another entrail opera, called Doctor in Distress (still unreleased in the U.S.). But he need not have panicked. He has since appeared in The Servant (TIME, March 20), and critics have given him the serious acceptance he was looking for. More over, just as The Servant opened in the U.S., he was scoring another success on U.S. television...
What Brooks and company are really concerned about is the meet with Princeton, exactly a week away. Adding to the distress caused by Bill Chadsey's departure late in January was the news only this week that freestyler Bob Buster has decided to take a semester's leave...
Frantically, the two stations radioed the plane on Air Force frequencies and a Russian-monitored international distress band. Repeatedly, they called warnings that the T-39 was flying toward Communist territory. There was no reply...
...handled an occasional no-fee civil liberties case, and likes to say that he had "the largest nonpaying law practice in the U.S." But fact is, he made law pay well, earning as much as $200,000 a year. During the Depression of the '30s he invested in distress-priced stocks and real estate, and he prospered on the price recovery of the '40s. Finding that business was "less work and a lot more fun" than law, Lamb decided that "the way to build up a big fortune is to get control of companies." He now controls...