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...quiet aftermath of peace, Codner married, finished his studies in colonial administration at Oxford, and put in for service in Malaya, the place where he was born (son of a British rubber planter). It was an assignment for an adventurer-a job as assistant district officer in charge of 20,000 Malayans and Chinese in Tanjong Malim. The area was a hot spot in the interminable war between Britain and the Malayan Communists. Codner, often the hunter, could also be what he liked to be-one of the hunted. The village he worked in was ringed with barbed wire...
With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the Florida line, near Pollard, Ala. He knew the odds were long even though Humble, one of the biggest wildcat gamblers in the U.S., was doing the drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights...
...June 2, 1947, a wealthy India tea planter named John Spencer Wilkie arrived in England for surgical treatment. After a couple of operations and months of hospitalization, Scots-born Planter Wilkie began to worry about the length of his stay in England. He knew very well that a visitor who stays longer than six months in Britain must pay full British income tax (in 1947 the rate was 45%, plus surtax on incomes over $8,000. At 10 a.m. on Dec. 2, after an anxious two-day delay, he had himself flown out of England on a stretcher. Wilkie thought...
...days as a nonresident of Britain. Then Judge Donovan had another bright idea: Why not count hours? That did it. In the 366-day, 8,784-hour, 1947-48 tax year, Wilkie had spent 4,388 hours in England. It was four hours less than a half year. Tea Planter Wilkie won his case...
When Adventurer Thor (Kon-Tiki) Heyerdahl and his comrades visited Papeete, Mrs. Arlette Reasin, a Tahitian planter's wife, welcomed them with a hula, later sued Heyerdahl for $150,000 because he included pictures of the dance, without permission, in his book's movie version. Last week a Los Angeles judge dismissed the suit, decreeing that Mrs. Reasin's artistic efforts were "in effect, a gift...