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...FLAW IN THE FIGURES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: NEW MILLIONAIRES: | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...misleading flaw in the figures is that none of the new millionaires count on salaries alone. By whatever energy, invention or imagination they make their big stake, they keep it by taking careful advantage of the capital gains tax,* under which assets held for six months can be sold as a long-term capital gain and the profit taxed only 25%. A single man who invests his money in an apartment house, for example, then sells it six months later at a $300,000 profit, would have to pay $247,280 to the Federal Government if the profit was taxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: NEW MILLIONAIRES: | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...clue that will explain his cal nature. At the same time, however, the play is more than a search for the last place in a jig-saw puzzle. Johnson has much to say about the tendency of every man to see in others his own greatest flaw; about the difficulty of re-creating the image of a man from a variety of half-true impressions. Each narrator, whether friend or lover, sees only part of Swift, and even the whole account seems not enough for a true picture. Johnston ends his play with Swift Brushing away the fools and declaring...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: The Dreaming Dust | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

...Gone With the Wind were both Technicolor epics, yet succeeded as art as well as escapist entertainment. Desiree does neither, though it had all the potentialities: a cast of true actors, a sensitive script writer, and a factual basis in one of history's more romantic escapades. Its great flaw stems from the fact that it was filmed in a wide-screen process by a director who was apparently ignorant or stubborn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Desiree | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Eisenhower Direction. But the flaw in middle-of-the roadism is its irrelevance to where the road is headed. On this score the 1954 election may have an even more important meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Where Does the Road Go? | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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