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...issued at par March 12, the bonds are redeemable at par Oct. 15, 1959, with a Treasury option to call them for redemption any time after Oct. 15, 1955. The Chancellor is so sure the whole issue will be snapped up at once that he told the House his Treasury books will be open for subscriptions for only 24 hours, and no one person will be permitted to buy more than ?1,000 ($4,000) worth...
Soon it looked as if Producer Jed Harris had won. Then things began to happen. Harris and Hemingway couldn't agree on revisions, and Harris checked out. Austin Parker (a former husband of Miriam Hopkins) took a $1,000 option on the play, died a few days later. From then on The Fifth Column was batted around the market; finally Hemingway threw the script on the shelf...
...would keep the two children: Sara, 7, and Kate, 4; that Sara and Kate would each get $167.50 a month until they were 12, then $250 a month; plus some dividends if Jimmy makes more than $50,000 a year. Betsy was given a cold $65,000 and an option of $50,000 more after five years or $5,000 until she remarries...
...Allies. There was no confirmation of this in Rome, where II Duce received last week Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. Herr Himmler was said to have received from Premier Mussolini a "personal message" for Chancellor Hitler, but the Gestapo chief busied himself mainly about technical aspects of the option now being exercised by inhabitants of the Italian Tyrol of choosing on or before Dec. 31 whether to remain Italian subjects or be transported free to Germany...
...first "places" was reported to be Paramount, which dropped her in 1937. But to the sudden autumnal flurry of studio offers, Cinemactress Dietrich, grateful to Producer Pasternak for giving her another chance when other producers would only take her out to supper, replied that her option belongs to daddy. Said she: "Joe Pasternak has first call on my services...