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Last week, after his fifth escape, Fugitive Belbenoit was hiding in the jungles of Panama trapping rare butterflies with a long-handled net to make enough money to carry him to the U. S. Recently he appeared at the offices of the Panama American, told his story which was promptly resold to the North American Newspaper Alliance. As originally written, it began: "I, Rene Belbenoit, who have smelled the odor of human liver being cooked by escaped convicts, who have seen groups of men decapitated every month...
...Helen Jacobs has a game marked less by brilliance or speed of stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing straight...
...always been my belief that the Government should raise the major portion of its revenue from direct taxes levied on the net incomes of individuals and corporations. Once this is done, every one pays for his fair share and knows just how much the Government is costing him. ... On the other hand, if the major portion of the Government's income is obtained from indirect and hidden taxes- taxes upon such things as food, clothing, gasoline and cigarets-then the main burden falls upon those of small income...
...admired by Maxim Gorki and imitated by Joseph Conrad) they generally boil down into an antique kind of penny-dreadful. Scenarists Philip Dunne, John Balderston, Paul Perez, and Daniel Moore worked in shifts for more than a year to keep this from happening to The Lasf of the Mohicans. Net result is an intelligent and exciting version of a story, which, properly loaded with physical action, keeps the imprint of literature...
...real value of Middle West stock remained a blank mystery. Some subsidiaries were earning, some losing money. The job of drawing up a consolidated financial statement was described by its officers as "nearly impossible." President Green had estimated that net income for 1936 would be more than $1,000,000 or better than 30? a share on the common stock, the new company's sole capitalization. The temptation to make and stake a guess on Middle West's real value last week proved too much for two Chicago brokers...