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Eddie Canton and wife Ida turned out to have overpaid their income taxes in 1945, got back the difference: some $100,000. Bing Crosby, whose golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...
...Harvard Republican Open Forum, the group will hold its first meeting on November 19 in the Lowell House Junior Common Room when it will present Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, and Charles C. Abbott, associate professor of Business Economics, speaking on the topic, "Is Uncle Sam Overpaid...
Although you can factually disprove the contentions that Merchant Seamen were overpaid, it is much harder to gather facts about slacking, draft-dodging and the other uglier vices attributed to war-time sailors. The full story is that staying "shore-side" meant immediate drafting, which, for good or bad, is never mentioned in the current charges. Further, the purely civilian status so prized by merchant seamen passed with other myths as a ship left the pier for deep waters. At sea, in convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union...
...Genius," Oscar Wilde once said, "is born, not paid." His own limp-lily brand of Irish-Oxonian genius has been paid many times over, which is not necessarily to say overpaid. In the years since his death in 1900 (from cerebral meningitis, probably complicated by syphilis), he has become more & more renowned-a state of affairs which he would doubtless find amusing...
...little more than half that of the same quarter in 1944. Reason: it wrote off $44,000,000 in deferred amortization (depreciation, purchase of new facilities, etc.), came up with a $27 million deficit and thus cut its taxes so much that it had actually overpaid them in the first part of this year. This tax credit was more than enough to offset the deficit in income, thus gave Bethlehem a reported net profit of $2.05 a share, or 38? more than in the same quarter last year...