Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a real challenge to the stockholders' slate, a certain laxness in this area of record-keeping had developed. Most of these mistakes were of no consequence to anyone for 86 years. All of a sudden last fall we had to have accurate records and it was just too late. It was not until the first of the year when the various schools published up-to-date and complete alumni directories that we were able to correct our lists...
...three of the Crimson star's victories were come-from-behind efforts, with the pins coming late in the match. "These heavier guys couldn't stick with me as far as weight went so I tried to keep moving, and it all paid off," Imrie said last night...
...blame for such notorious tax avoidance properly rests on the law, not its lucky beneficiaries. For a generation the guiding philosophy of loophole users has been that of the late Justice Learned Hand: "There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." Financier J. P. Morgan put it more bluntly: "If Congress insists on making stupid mistakes and passing foolish tax laws, millionaires should not be condemned if they take advantage of them...
...typecast as the perfect butler, which he played in 1937's Tapper and only four other films. In fact, he was so much at home in such roles (the tax-tortured tailor in The Boys from Syracuse, 1940; the lacy interior decorator in Jackpot, 1950) that the late John Barrymore could call him "a worthy adversary...
Died. Max Eastman, 86, lusty lion of the left until the late 1930s when he became disenchanted and turned his literary talents to exposing Communism; of a stroke; in Bridgetown, Barbados. Tall, handsome and charming, Eastman captivated women (three marriages, numerous self-publicized affairs), yet nothing equaled his youthful love match with radicalism. In World War I, as editor of The Masses, he preached so violently against U.S. involvement that he was indicted (but not convicted) for sedition. In the 1920s, he traveled to Russia, where he became an intimate of Trotsky, but disillusionment came with Stalin's terrorism...