Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here a telegram arrives from Paul G. Hoffman ordering Santa's release "on condition he go to Europe and sell ERP deliveries and make some rackets." The FBI man tells Santa: " 'Now you'll do business with the firm of Marshall, Lovett, Draper, Clayton and Hoffman, Inc...
...Amusement Enterprises, Inc. (Comedian Benny's corporate entity), the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruling meant that the $1,356,000 due Benny from CBS as 60% stockholder was subject to a whopping $1,030,000 in personal income taxes. Until he got the dire word, professional skinflint Benny had hoped (on advice of counsel) that he would have to pay only $300,000 in capital-gains taxes...
Like any good businessman or golf pro, Ben Hogan loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...
Married. Harry Amos Bullis, 58, chairman of the board of General Mills, Inc.; and Polish Countess Maria Smorczewska, 54, who was put into a Nazi concentration camp during the war for underground activities; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1947), she for the third; in Minneapolis...
...Victors (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Thornton Wilder; produced by New Stages, Inc.) is sponsored by the same experimental group that last season made a bandbox hit, and then a Broadway hit, of Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute. The new production is by no means so likely to triumph at the box office: it is very little more convincing than The Respectful Prostitute was, and it is a good deal less exciting and scandalous...