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...born, 53% regularly read their daily horoscopes in the press, 43% thought of astrologers as scientists, 38% intended to have their horoscopes drawn up by an astrologer, and 37% believed that character traits correspond to zodiacal signs. More to France's credit was the fact that the most avid believers turned out to be farmers, people over 65 and workers earning less than $120 a month...
Mythical War. Liberia's President Tubman completely furnished his executive mansion at Macy's. Tonga's Amazonian Queen Salote outfitted herself for Queen Elizabeth's coronation by purchasing six Macy's gowns (size: 24). Some of the most avid customers are the visiting materialists from Russia and its satellites, who enjoy picking at Macy's the fruits of capitalist enterprise. For those who cannot make the trip to Herald Square, Macy's has a personal shopping service. Among millions of routine assignments, it has dispatched six bottles of Coppertone to a sunburned Englishman...
...Undersold!"), even though Gimbels has long since been supplanted as New York's second largest store by Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus (in which Jack Straus's family held a major interest until 1913). Macy's also works at burnishing its reputation as an avid civic booster, buying full-page newspaper ads that hymn the local theater, symphonies and sports teams. Its publicity-minded executives are adept at the techniques of both Madison Avenue and Broadway; for various promotions they have brought into the store a Venetian gondola, $75,000 worth of flowers and a menagerie...
...Area at Washington, Va., which has three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double-track slope; Strudel Run at Braddock Heights, Md., with four slopes and a T-bar lift. The more avid drive four hours to the Homestead Ski Area at Hot Springs, Va., or Deep Creek Ski Area near Oakland...
Jones is an excitingly gifted playwright, but as a Negro writer he is edging toward three pitfalls. The first danger is white tolerance, the avid desire of the white masochists to be openly reviled for the indignities and injustices they feel whites have visited upon the Negro. The playwright who falls into the trap of doing the reviling loses his intellectual honesty and ends up practicing prejudice in reverse. Secondly, a playwright cannot afford to fall into his own foaming rage. To translate experience into art, he must achieve the same detachment from his own wounds that a surgeon would...