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...suit against the major studios, to divorce producers from control of theaters, was in its third week. On the West Coast, the Bureau of Internal Revenue was sniffing at the heels of the independent producers, who seemed to be getting too much money through a loophole in the Revenue Code. Variety predicted that the outcome might well be no suits to recover more than $30,000,000 in back taxes...
...Scientists hate secrecy. Their professional code compels them to tell the world about each new discovery. Besides, the greatest reward they ever get is the appre ciation of their colleagues. If they could not talk and write about their achieve ments, their lives would be barren indeed...
...unearthed a 17th-Century Italian book beneath the floor of a deserted shack. Just to have it appraised, he took it to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves, noticed a pattern of pinholes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, formed a simple code message. Its exciting intelligence: the King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape...
...that there may be no further nonsense, MacArthur followed up with a tough ten-point code for the press. In effect, it ordered the Japs to tell the truth, at the same time tell no truth that would hurt the U.S. Some rules...
...their King Log, Will H. Hays. He was called "The Speechless Spokesman" be cause, as the industry's Washington representative, he often seemed to be in effectual. His Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (The Hays Office) also disliked him because he administered the motion picture code with prim inflexibility. So last week Czar Hays finally abdicated...