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...wound up in self-exile in Switzerland. Not long after his exit, he began liquidating all his known U.S. assets. Before surrendering his U.S. re-entry permit in 1953, British-Subject Chaplin, a U.S. resident for 42 years, made $2.7 million, according to a tab kept by U.S. revenooers, from dividends and sale of stocks and his movie studio. Last week the income-taxers announced that Millionaire Chaplin owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly chat with Charlie. But the mission seems doomed to fail; unless Chaplin...
Price: $885,000. After an hour's stormy debate, enlivened by some outraged oratory (the price "represents about 650,000 bushels of wheat, or 6,000 grain-fed steers"), Parliament agreed to pick up the tab for Rubens' The Entombment of Christ, Martini's St. Catherine and Chardin's The Governess and Returning from, the Market...
...coffee on the job. Radio Corp. of America, one Coffee Time customer, is so pleased with the service that it has banned outside coffee excursions, dispenses 45 gallons of coffee a day at cost to employees. In exchange for the manpower savings, about half the companies pick up the tab for employees' coffee. Many others pay half the cost, turn employees' contributions over to recreation funds...
Macdonald said yesterday that he was opposed to direct Government subsidization of athletics but he did feel that "Once our team is selected, it is our duty to pick up the tab for their living and training expenses until their departure...
After four months of radioactive cobalt treatment in a Moscow hospital, Mexico's pudgy Communist Artist Diego Rivera, 69, bounded out with a paean to the "miracle cure" of his skin cancer. The Communists picked up the tab for all his expenses, so Rivera made a grateful bid (untaken) to his hosts: "I would consider it the climax of my career if the Soviet government asked me to paint something for them here!" The U.S.S.R. struck Diego Rivera as little short of paradise. Said he: "I am very happy to have been sick here...