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...Louis, the court of appeals upheld the sentence for misconduct in office imposed last year on James P. Finnegan, 52, erstwhile U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and glad-handed pal of Harry Truman's. Finnegan's mistake: accepting fees from private companies for his services in two cases involving the Government while he was a federal employee. His sentence: $10,000 fine, two years in prison...
Trapped between gunman and bomb, the captives sweat it out through all sorts of minor melodramatic outbursts: two of the hostages unsuccessfully try to knife and shoot the desperado (Stephen Mc-Nally); a doctor (Richard Egan) performs an emergency operation on the gunman's wounded pal (Paul Kelly); the doctor's spoiled wife (Alexis Smith) sees her lover (Robert Paige) shot to death; love comes to a hard-boiled nightclub entertainer (Jan Sterling) and a reporter (Keith Andes...
...from small loans, but he is not satisfied; he dreams of real wealth. The local priest advises Margayya to woo the gods with a special rite: mix the ashes of a red lotus with milk drawn from a smoke-colored cow. Sure enough, not long after, Margayya meets Dr. Pal, a sociologist who has written a book called Bed-Life, or the Science of Marital Happiness. The first chapters make Margayya blush, but they also make him want to read on. Then the idea hits him: he publishes Dr. Pal's manuscript under the discreet title, Domestic Harmony...
...specialist on the subject of interest on capital, which seems to him "the greatest wonder of creation, [combining] the mystery of birth and multiplication." All goes well, except that his only son, once a charming little fellow, now becomes sullen and spoiled. Egged on by the worthless Dr. Pal, the boy tries to get more & more money from Margayya; when Margayya resists, Dr. Pal spreads a rumor that Margayya is a fraud. In a matter of hours, the bank is bankrupt...
Another Grunewald pal was George Schoeneman, then commissioner of Internal Revenue. Schoeneman introduced Grunewald to Charles Oliphant, then the Revenue Bureau's chief counsel. They became fast friends; Grunewald gave Oliphant a $600 television set, two $200 room air-conditioning units for his house, an electric train for his children. Said Grunewald: "I'd call him up and say, 'Charlie, you happen to be busy right now?' And he would say he wasn't, so I'd go over and we'd have a talk." About what? "Anything," said Grunewald, "except we never...