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...beach where Mitzi Gaynor washed that man right outa her hair in South Pacific. Owner Lyle Guslander, who has built hotels on all three of the major Neighbor Islands, insists that every employee learn the name of every guest. Evenings in its House of Happy Talk lounge are apt to turn into one big Hawaiian house party...
...mansion, shared with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The manuscripts usually come from agents-grey cartons from William Morris, orange from Curtis Brown. It is here that the vagaries of book publishing can get stickier than a freshly glued spine at a book bindery. Established authors are apt to be stubborn, demanding, supersensitive, uneven in their production, and extremely difficult to hold on to. For example, Cerf did not want to publish Author Robert Crichton's second book, Rascal and the Road; he was convinced that it would not sell. Crichton insisted. Cerf published it, and sure...
...Senior Tutor is apt to be able to present a student's case in a much more sympathetic light than is the student himself, the argument runs. Knowing the precedents and the acceptable arguments, the Senior Tutor is in the best position to present the most palatable defense. The student, on the other hand, would be likely to plead instead of argue--a tactic which could only antagonize the members of the Board. Furthermore, Dean Watson argues that if a student were brought before the Board he would be "subject to a number of embarrassing questions which might otherwise...
...possibility of creating some kind of student disciplinary committee, F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, said that he didn't think the undergraduates would allow it. "It has been my experience that any kind of peer group disciplinary system is apt to clobber the student much harder than the bureaucracy." Dean Ford agreed that "students hang each other amazingly cheerfully...
...complicating circumstance is the typical middle-aged man's notion that at his time of life his body has to be preserved from any undue stress and strain. He may play 36 holes of golf and cards afterward, but at night, in bed with his wife, he is apt to feel that sex is too strenuous and depleting. He is more interested in preserving his body than his marriage"-although even the doctor would agree that a reasonable concern for the physical is vital to both the man and his marriage...