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...March 1955, the painful business of filling out income-tax forms may become a thing of the past for 35 million U.S. citizens. Internal Revenue Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews suggested last week. Under Andrews' proposed new collection system, the Government will simply send a bill (or a refund) to the millions of taxpayers whose entire income comes from earnings that are subject to payroll withholding and who take only the standard 10% deduction for personal expenses and contributions. The new system will not be mandatory. Andrews calculates that only about 20 million taxpayers (who have several sources of income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Painless Extraction | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Secret Mission. In Montgomery, Ala., the Chamber of Commerce got a letter from a woman in Florida: "Am returning herewith a pair of panties and a pin for refund ... I do not know from whom purchased. Know it was in your city and do not want to offend [the people who sent them to me]. Thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Dangerous When Wet. In Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Last week, after the Herald's expose, DuPre was "in a state of collapse" and "under doctor's care." Said Author Reynolds: "I am shocked and sad and very sorry for George." Random House Publisher Cerf took a more commercial view: this week he offered to refund the price of the book to anyone who wanted it, and suggested to bookstores all over the U.S. that they move the book from the "nonfiction" display shelves to the "fiction" section where it belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man Who Talked | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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