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Short Change. In Camden, N.J., U.S. Internal Revenue Service Auditor Elmer T. Ponto, 34, devised a simplified income-tax table which has already saved the Government $95,199 and is expected to save $250,000 annually, was rewarded with a $675 cash prize, less $121.50 tax, which added enough to his year's income to throw him into a higher tax bracket...
Short Change. In Camden. N.J., U.S. Internal Revenue Service Auditor Elmer T. Ponto, 34, devised a simplified income-tax table which has already saved the Government $95,199 and is expected to save $250,000 annually, was rewarded with a $675 cash prize, less $121.50 tax, which added enough to his year's income to throw him into a higher tax bracket...
APPLEBY ON ARARAT-Michael Innes-Dodd, Mead ($2). A learned Scotland Yarder, marooned with five other loquacious characters on remote Pacific islet, elucidates the slaying of Sir Ponto Unumunu, black anthropologist, and goes on to puncture an Empire-threatening secret of oddly assorted indigenes. Overtones of Evelyn Waugh, G. K. Chesterton and E. P. Oppenheim make it a treat for those who like their mysteries recondite...
...Copeland will give a reading from Thackeray this afternoon in Sever 11 at four o'clock. This is the fourth of the series of readings and lectures given by Mr. Copeland for the benefit of the Prospect Union. The reading will include selections from "Henry Esmond," "Music at Mrs. Ponto's from "The Book of Snobs," and a number of Thackeray's poems including the "Ballad of Bouillabaisse." Tickets for fifty cents may be obtained at the door...