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Then the committee discovered that one way, apparently, to collect taxes better was to keep city employees from stealing them. As committee investigators delved deeper & deeper, one William C. Foss, who headed the amusement tax division in the office of the Receiver of Taxes, hanged himself in the basement of his home. In addition to a tin box containing $16,400 in cash and Government bonds, there was unearthed a note headed succinctly: "How the shortage in the amusement tax office was divided." In it Foss named six of his fellow employees and an outsider...
WILSON P. Foss Katonah...
Last week, 60 years after Edward Lear and his faithful old cat-traveling companion Foss died, Manhattan galleryites got a chance to judge Edward Lear the artist through his spontaneous sketches. "Oh, dear, dear, dear," Lear once wrote, "the more I see of nature, the more sure I am that one Edward Lear should never have attempted to represent her. Yet . . . I know there is a vein of poetry in me that ought to have come out." If anywhere it did come out, fresh & free, it was in the pale and delicate watercolors he jotted down in a few feverish...
...members of the Freshman "B" squad Don Foss and Reeves Sigourney, will dress with the "A" squad today as a result of the injury fostered general reshuffling of the squad...
...patients, Dr. Foss warned, now face a new hazard: many of the 40,000 young medical officers demobilized at war's end have begun to practice surgery without proper training (because surgical posts in hospitals, where they might be trained, are scarce...