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...time Pola looked anemic was in 1941, when she left behind her 18 lb., all her money, in then-Unoccupied France, promptly fled to the U.S. She was met by a seven-year-old bill from Manhattan's de luxe Hotel Ambassador. The bill ($2,500) represented the unpaid balance of $8,500 which Pola had run up for cash advances (upwards of $4,500), flowers, beauty-parlor charges, drugs, telegrams, phone calls, etc. But hotel bills were not all. She was also being dunned for $1,705.30 by Couturiere Hattie Carnegie, Inc. for purchases which included $10 handkerchiefs...
...glimpse of the elder J. P. Morgan's imperious bulk convinced Graduate Bernie that he wanted to be a financier. He went to work in Wall Street as an unpaid apprentice...
...aspersions with concrete facts. But reports came that the widely discounted Bermuda conference may have been more than a junketing seminar after all. Readying for release, perhaps this week, was a joint U.S.-British announcement of plans agreed on. The Intergovernmental Refugee Commit tee, established in 1938 as an unpaid advisory body, was to be buttressed with funds and a paid chairman and secretary, given the job of finding land, housing, shipping, food, medicines and other supplies needed to resettle some of the 20,000 refugees in Spain, the 100,000 in the Balkans. Some 55,000 Jews...
...Garden Opera House, complete with the vast Covent Garden vegetable market that adjoins it. When World War I broke, Beecham pere's colleagues backed out, left him holding the bag. In the bag was nominal ownership of the Opera House, the adjoining market, nine other theaters, and an unpaid bill for $15,000,000. Having achieved this stroke of financial wizardry, Joseph Beecham died and left the magic to Tommy. The bequest kept Thomas Beecham in & out of English bankruptcy courts for nearly 20 years. But he kept producing opera in Covent Garden, managing the vegetable market...
...Acting Medical Officer (unpaid), Monsarrat has seen more than his share of pain and of that conduct of men in pain which is one of war's few compensations. He is perhaps at his best in communicating the simple grandeur, purposefulness and comradeship of a great number of vessels spaced and moving upon constant danger. H. M. Corvette is a quick cleaning-up, obviously, of spasmodic, hurried jottings in a notebook. It promises England a fine writer, when more time is had for writing...