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Author Robert Cedric Sherriff (Journey's End) had a modest proposal for the British Treasury. Sherriff, whose new play, Home at Seven, was netting him ?3,600 a year, had just had an offer of ?10,000 ($28,000) to write a script...
Hollywood. Sherriff sat down, did some quick calculating, figured that Socialist Britain's income tax would take all but ?500. Said he: "It didn't seem worth while putting in four or five months of very hard work for a sum I could make as a jobbing gardener-or collecting refuse in cans, for that matter...
...weeks ago Sherriff approached the Treasury, offered to write the Hollywood script for a nominal ?100, provided that the remaining ?9,900 went to the Society of Antiquaries for the excavation of some Roman ruins in Norfolk. Said Sherriff: "It is neither comforting nor does it make one proud to reflect that one is providing so many free sets of false teeth ... to the people of Britain ... I would gladly work for next to nothing if it would produce something for the nation I could feel I had a hand...
Last week Sherriff's proposal was answered. Treasury officials were sympathetic but firm: there was no legislation to cover such an arrangement. That decided Sherriff: the $28,000 would go unearned, the Roman ruins Would go unexcavated, and Sherriff himself would continue to work only four months of the year and to work his farm the other eight. Said Sherriff: "I think I'll find looking after the chickens more profitable and more interesting...
...Front Porch. First defendant to go to trial was self-assured, balding Coleman A. ("Brownie") Lollar. Lollar operated a scuttle-sized coal mine. He had also been a special deputy sherriff...