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Died. Harry Leslie Chorlton, 85, artist and engraver who designed the Great Seal of the U.S. on the one-dollar bill, as well as a 3? stamp, Treasury seals, and U.S. coat of arms; of pneumonia; in Altadena, Calif...
...sinks a long putt, she is apt to fall to her knees and praise Allah; when she misses a short one, she may exclaim, "I feel like nuts & bolts rattling together." On a hot day, she once gathered a circle of women around her on the golf course while she shed her petticoat; another time she startled the gallery with a highland fling. She once insisted on being paid her tournament money in one-dollar bills ("It makes me feel richer"). She operates like a woman whose life is a constant campaign to astound people...
Specialist. In Mobile, Ala., a gunman held up Mrs. Harold Matthews in her husband's grocery, took all her one-dollar bills, left the fives, tens, twenties...
Last year St. Clair McKelway wrote a series of articles for the "New Yorker" about an elusive counterfeiter. Known as "Mr. 880" from the number of his Treasury Department file, this counterfeiter left a trail of disarmingly crude one-dollar bills across four boroughs of New York and the Staten Island Ferry, and led the Secret Service the longest chase in its history...
Mister 880 (20th Century-Fox) adapts the authentic story-almost too good to be true-of the most elusive man the U.S. Secret Service ever tried to catch: a lovable old counterfeiter who struck off amateurish one-dollar bills. St. Clair McKelway told the story in three New Yorker articles last year. Scripter Robert (It Happened One Night) Riskin retells it with just enough respect for the flavorsome facts and just the right knack of working them into warm, humorous fiction...