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...good: the countess "ordered him dozens of suits." Once, relates Elsa, the countess went to Mexico, "not to meet King Carol, whom she knew well, or Madame Lupescu, who were living there, but in search of a gold mine." Dorothy never found it. but she was always hankering to parlay her $12 million inheritance into a greater fortune. She and Bugsy once tried to peddle an explosive, which "had almost the same power that the atom bomb had," to tbe Italian government. Like most of the countess' get-richer-quick schemes, Bugsy's bomb, "when the test came...
...thinks the GOP will try to parlay its attacks on Truman into long range political cannon-fodder. "In tennis they say when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...
Brown, which won last week from Connecticut after being stopped ten times in a row, including the tailend of last season, hopes to parlay some physical and psychological advantages into victory today...
...Whisky Parlay. The taxpayer, Hyman Harvey Klein of Los Angeles, was revealed as another of the financial wonder workers who are turning up in Washington these days. Klein testified that in 2½ years he parlayed a $1,000 investment into a $5,000,000 profit, through a brisk import business in Canadian whisky. His troubles began in 1946 when the Government charged him with black-markeeering and tax fraud. In 1948, the BIR, afraid that he would skip the country, slapped a $7,000,000 tax lien on his assets...
...Broadwater and Wolfson saw their big chance to parlay their stakes. North American Co., the famed holding company pyramid built by Harrison Williams (TIME, Jan. 21), was under court order to sell its 45.6% controlling interest in Capital Transit, which runs all the streetcars and buses in Washington, D.C. The stock, which had paid only a 50? dividend in 1948, was selling for less than $20 a share. Broadwater & friends bought all 109,458 shares owned by North American at $20 apiece, with Wolfson putting up almost half of the $2,189,160 required. Broadwater and seven others raised...