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...last word from Betty Graham to the folks at home. Last fortnight John Graham got a terse cablegram from the Peking Ministry of Health: Betty had died "unexpectedly." The Communist radio announced last week that she had been buried "in the sanctuary of eternal repose" in the Western Hills overlooking the ancient city of Peking. Said John Graham : 'She was coming home - and she didn't come home...
...Declared he had not yet received a letter from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Thomas McCabe (sent a fortnight ago), questioning Truman's expressed "understanding" that "the market on Government securities will be stabilized and maintained at present levels" (TIME...
Oddly enough, news of the wholesale frauds never got beyond the locker rooms until last December, when a group of indignant workers quietly laid the whole thing before postal authorities. Fortnight ago, Boston's Chief Post Office Inspector Tennyson Jefferson and 42 inspectors swooped down on the annex. Though they had picked a bad night (business was slack because of the railroad strike), they found 28 time cards punched for men who never showed up, and enough evidence to convince them that the Government had been bilked out of between $4 and $5,000,000 in the last four...
...fortnight ago, when the law finally caught up with Rimrock Annie in Los Angeles, she was busily preparing suits against two motorists. Extradited to Colorado, she pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and admitted her chicanery...
...surprise to all but a few of her friends. Some in the audience shouted "No! No!" German-born Lotte Lehmann, handsome, dignified, less than a fortnight away from her 63rd birthday, shook her head. "Don't argue with me. I started to sing in public in 1910. After 41 years of anxiety, nerves, strain and hard work, I think I deserve to take it easy. You know that the Marschallin [the aging heroine of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier] has always been one of my favorite parts. The Marschallin looks into her mirror and says...