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...plump, 31-year-old salesman, paid extra (minimum rate: about 50? a week) to get a picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm reported that he had had a fine time...
...admitted that, in the absence of serious U.S. intervention, the Chinese Communists would take over in China. Having done so, they would sieze all land from the landlords and the well-to-do farmers for redistribution, Aside from the fact that this would mean a massacre of three times the enormity of the Soviet "Khulak" liquidation, it would also mean agricultural collectivism, without which land-redistribution would be meaningless since "khulaks" would forever rise above the others and stifle them economically. As Russia's experience in the field of collectivization would be too valuable to be ignored, the Chinese Communists...
...smart man with a dollar, Casey is well-to-do, but after 38 years in organized baseball, he still likes the game and the company, and his reputation with the fans as a shrewd buffoon. Said he last week: "I've done everything now-played for McGraw, managed the Toledo Mudhens, been farmed out to Kankakee by the Kansas City Blues, played for the Brooklyn Bums. This completes the cycle...
...Changing World. After November, what about the Dixiecrats? The chances are that they will disappear as a political entity. Having made their protest under the most dramatic circumstances possible -a presidential election-their well-to-do but amateur backers will probably return to their businesses. It is doubtful whether there are enough politicians in the party to keep it going after that. The chances are that the Dixiecrats will once again become indistinguishable from regular Southern Democrats. With the Northern Democrats out of power in Washington, the authority against which the Dixiecrats revolted will have been removed. All hands...
...blotter entries O'Grady especially likes to recall. When Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch lost $2,000 near the Belmont gate, before he had a chance to lose it at the windows, O'Grady recovered the roll with the rubber bands still intact. Another time, a temporarily well-to-do businessman suddenly decided to "invest" his savings of $80,000 in one glorious day at the races. Two special agents who spotted the man peeling off thousand-dollar bills at a pari-mutuel window put a purposely obvious "tail" on him, so that every footpad within miles would keep...