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Thus James Lincoln subjected himself to a very considerable financial risk. Item: he is now in the courts defying the Navy to renegotiate him out of $3,250,000 of 1942 "excess profits" (this is the first fullblown test yet of the renegotiation law). Item: he has also gone to court to contest a Treasury ruling that he overpaid...
...ring is a national decoration. His gaudy uniforms and many medals are a national-and international-joke. He lives in piratical splendor. He took his second wife, Emmy Sonnemann, out of the Prussian State Theatre, bedecked her in flowing garments to accentuate her fullblown beauty and roped her in the biggest pearls a Greek merchant could collect for him. Göring lives far beyond his salary. Nobody in Germany cares where he gets the money...
...usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which shimmers and hints, to sing with a somewhat uncertain falsetto a song called "You Love Me." Miss Baclanova tells Inspector Ellery: "I read men like books...