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...this point Hemingway, resuming his job of war correspondent, sailed for Spain. Two days later, with his $1,000 option check in the mail, Parker died. Because no contracts had actually been executed, Parker's heirs had no lien on the script, and it started on its travels all over again. With Hemingway's representative, Captain Rollin Dart-who had met Hemingway in Spain while an officer in the Loyalist Army-in charge of the script, it was wanted by the Theatre Guild, rumored sold to Gilbert Miller, to Jock Whitney. No rumor held water long. Last week...
...Speeding military trucks added to the confusion, running down soldiers and refugees who did not step aside in time. I saw a munitions truck explode near me and watched an armored car burn. At Fengyang a red-eyed, swollen-lipped figure hailed me. He was General Sun Lien-chung, Commander of the 26th Battalion. He stood disconsolately outside the gate of the city and remarked: 'Things are upside down...
...Miami, Fla., the Federal Government filed a tax lien against the Palm Island mansion of Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of imprisoned Gangster Al Capone...
...lien was for $17.166 taxes on Gangster Capone's 1926-29 income. Next day in Jacksonville Mrs. Capone entered suit against the Federal Government through J. Edwin Larsen, collector of internal revenue in Florida, for $52,103 which she claimed was unjustly collected from her to pay her husband's back taxes after he was found guilty of tax evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey...
...associated with him in lending the $1,000,000 to the operating company," said he, "but 99 years is a long time, and our memories need not run very far back to illustrate my point." Mr. Prince, he observed, would be getting a "rather heavy toll," and his first lien on M. & St. L. income would make RFC's first mortgage, in effect, a second mortgage. Lastly, the whole idea was "a delusion in that it holds out false hopes to everyone interested in the road...