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Innkeeper's Delight. Composer Vejvoda, 43 and balding, now runs a pleasant plaster inn on the banks of the Vltava. In his prosperity, he owns two 20-piece bands...
...Alfred Duff Cooper, impeccable British Ambassador to France, gave a peccant Riviera innkeeper a nice demonstration of the retort diplomatic. The Ambassador, his Lady, and a motoring party of six friends lunched at the inn, got a bill for 16,000 francs (about $320). The Ambassador wrote his name on the bill, tucked it in an envelope addressed to the regional authority on price control, and called the headwaiter. "Would you be so kind as to send this," he murmured, arose, and departed...
...once proved-to his own satisfaction-that a man could eat on $1.75 a week, left a $278,264 estate but owed more than $37,000 of it. A tax appraisal showed that his Manhattan creditors included the Hotel St. Regis ($101), Monte Carlo nightclub ($46), suburban Arrowhead Inn...
...butchering it with practiced strokes when a vaquero rode up, challenged them, fired over their heads. Scampering away through the mesquite, Mr. & Mrs. Gomez left their tools behind. When they dared go home, they found a policeman waiting on the porch. Last week, cowboy customers of Gomez' Grapevine Inn were sad: no more thick, juicy beefsteaks would they get. Angel was serving two years in prison...
...police received an anonymous letter. It sounded incredible, but they investigated. Then the story came out: since April, Liao Chang-shin, with the assistance of one Hsui Chang-shan, had robbed and killed 78 people, most of them guests at his inn. When police caught Liao, he was about to dispose of Victim No. 79, who had given him $90,000 (Chinese) for safekeeping. Last week Liao and Hsui were awaiting death after confessing that they had averaged a little over a murder...