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...examination period, Harvard Men are eager still for intellectual challenge. But their frazzled pates respond only in dulled cliches. Confronted with his grade sheet a student is apt to murmur ominously, "beware of Greeks bearing gift horses in the mouth." Or, preparing to leave Cambridge at last, he may sigh: "home is where you hang your hat it." For these bemused undergraduates we offer a little game to be played on the long car ride home: Pervert-a-Proverb. The sayings to be spoonerized may be drawn from Aesop or advertizing. No matter. Here are a few easy warmer- uppers...
...inspired by last year's summer sensation, the topless bathing suit. The suit died on the beaches, but California restaurateurs saw other possibilities. Soon patrons sitting down to lunch at many a Los Angeles restaurant were apt to look up from their menu to discover a waitress wearing nothing above the waist. San Francisco's flagging nightclubs along North Beach went topless with enthusiasm, with more emphasis on wiggly performers. Some of the topless establishments are dilapidated dives where the girls are as easy to smuggle home as the ashtrays. But others are remarkably respectable, including some private...
...even a Ph.D.) has long ago ceased being enough, and even college professors are by no means automatically intellectuals. Many of the touchstones, used not only by the public but often by intellectuals, are part of folklore, fashion, even caricature. Given the same amount of education, a Democrat is apt to be considered an intellectual, but not so a Republican. Some labor leaders used to be intellectuals ex officio, but not any more. Politicians, even with academic degrees, are almost automatically out, unless they write books and are markedly liberal...
When he is not visiting his plants in Europe, Latin America or Africa-an activity that consumes half his time-J. Peter Grace is apt to spend his evenings studying chemistry in his Long Island home. "I'm not a chemist by any means," he explains, "but things change so fast in chemistry today that any man would have to study just as hard as I do to keep up." Grace's studies have paid off for the firm that he heads, W. R. Grace...
...novel hero, Kid Shellen. A "good" killer, the Kid arrives in town unable to live up or even stand up to his legend. His eyes are bloodshot from poring over whisky labels. On ceremonial occasions he wears a corset. When he is primed with rotgut, his fast draw is apt to pull his pants...