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HIRAM WILLIAMS-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th St. Williams' people are dough-faced cyclopes, chuckling dwarfs, malevolent freaks, some of them impeccably dressed in J. Press suits, all unkind to mankind. Through...
...least so say the Internal Revenue folk who figure that from 1954 to 1960 Comedian Sid Caesar, 41, missed out on paying more than a quarter of a million dollars in taxes. The way I.R.S. adds it, Sid failed to declare quite a bit of dividend dough and allowed himself about $64,000 worth of expenses that were nondeductible. Sid's lawyers, understandably indignant, have asked that the Government's $262,694 claim be thrown out as erroneous...
...French Style. Year after year, Irwin Shaw wept bitterly in his champagne. The cinemoguls gave him heaps of dough to write movie scripts (Act of Love, The Big Gamble), but a man cannot live by bread alone. As an artist, Irwin earnestly and frequently explained to the press, he was hurt by what happened to his scripts after he turned them in. Words were changed. Sometimes whole scenes were struck out by some thick-fingered fur salesman who had never read anything more difficult than a ledger. Sizzling from Hollywood's ignominies (and loaded with Hollywood's gold...
...compared to how he feels about the President's father. He depicts Joseph P. Kennedy as anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, as a fearful, cringing figure during the London blitz, and as perhaps the most ruthless, malign businessman in U.S. history. To Lasky it was Joe's dough alone that made Jack President and Bobby the nation's second most powerful man. And the father did it all to avenge an ethnic insult. "Having suffered all the slights and indignities Brahmin Boston could contrive for its despised minorities [the new Irish], Joseph P. Kennedy...
...Buying crude to keep its refineries cracking costs Sinclair $3 a bbl. v. $2 for oil from its own wells. Describing his company's plight, Steiniger uses a kitchen analogy: "It's like a baker with big ovens and not enough flour for his dough...