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...furnishings store in Brooklyn. Fame touched him when, riding a subway, he spotted Bank Robber Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the nation's most wanted criminal, on an opposite seat. Schuster's tip led police to capture Willie (TIME, March 3). Then, when the cops tried to hog the credit, he hired a lawyer to establish his claim to a rumored reward...
...these, of course, are not millionaires at all, but high-salaried executives who live for a day, like gaudy moths, in the bright light of the tax collector's investigators. Surtaxes consume their substance. They have no more chance of getting rich by saving than a Nebraska hog farmer of Bryan's day had of eating oysters with Ward McAllister...
King Farouk, whose own position was rendered almost as shaky as that of the British by the hog-wild nationalist uprising, abruptly fired the lot of them, with ironic thanks "for what you have done" and a reproof for failing to keep "security and order." To form the new government, he appointed an old friend and adviser: Aly Maher Pasha, 68, one of the richest men in Egypt, who has served twice be fore as Premier. As Chief of the Royal Cabinet when young Farouk first came to the throne as a boy of 16, Maher Pasha had formed...
With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the Florida line, near Pollard, Ala. He knew the odds were long even though Humble, one of the biggest wildcat gamblers in the U.S., was doing the drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights...
Brush Now! Standing at the "hack," Van Epps swung his stone "elbow in," imparting a clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...