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...troubles of some semi-recognizable showbiz sickies. Among them are a platinum blonde (Sharon Tate) who makes nudies to pay for her husband's stay in a sanatorium; a young singer (Patty Duke) who later turns to bedding down with strangers; and a brassy voiced Broadway zircon in the rough (Susan Hayward...
Clifford Frondel, professor of Mineralogy, has investigated the synthesis of rich minerals as tourmaline and zircon under moderate temperatures and pressures...
...liability, with the restriction that the allowance cannot in any year exceed 50% of the taxable income from the property. Yearly cost to the Treasury: about $1 billion. Similar allowances apply to natural-gas wells and, at less generous rates, to most kinds of mineral deposits, from antimony to zircon. What is wrong with the arrangement, as tax reformers see it, is that the owner can keep on taking the deduction indefinitely, even after he has fully recovered his capital outlays, while in most other types of business, an asset can be depreciated (written off against taxable income) only...
...Down. For his thousands of plain followers, Dadswell has his own sort of glamor. Readers who might be sold the Brooklyn Bridge can warm up to the man who confesses that he bought a $5,000 diamond for $25 from a mysterious Mexican, discovered it was a zircon "not worth a buck." He has the reckless savvy of the smart fellow who retires on his earnings (he did in 1926, 1938, 1945), and then shows up broke for a fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers...
...Wadsworth delivers his lecture in Lithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology today at 2 P. M. The subject is: "The General and Microscopic Characters of Magnetite, Chromite, Rutile, Zircon, Limonite and Wad." The next lecture will occur on January...