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Singapore), larger and more elegant homes, wild and lavish partying. They win & lose tens of thousands of dollars at mah-jongg and soo-sek (a game like rummy). Aw Boon Haw, the fabulous "Tiger Balm King," has added a nightmarish swimming pool to his huge Singapore residence; on the bottom of the pool are outsize hand-painted statues of mermaids, Oriental-style...
...football defeat had to be swallowed bald and whole. But there was balm in Gilead. Equally bald and equally whole stood forth the headline that proved that, although Harvard had lost a battle, it was winning the war. The headline read: "Crimson Chessmen Rock West Point Forces...
...Harvard football has come full circle. The season of 1950 was as dismal as, in fact a shade dismaler than, the season of 1932. But where is the balm in Gilead unless it be spelled "b-o-m-b? Certainly not in this report, grinding up the feeble residue of self-esteem, that the Harvard debating team has sustained defeat at the hands of the forensic forces of the Massachusetts state prison...
Meanwhile, Dean Acheson had his message, too, and it also sprayed balm in the general direction of the Communist scalp. The Government is trying in all its words & deeds to make its peaceful intentions toward China clear to the Communist leaders, he told reporters. President Truman has said so, declared Acheson, and we are making it clear through the Voice of America and otherwise...
Last week, Ben Duffy got some balm for his wounds. Advertising Age, the industry's bible, reported that fast-growing B.B.D. & O. had crowded Young & Rubicam out of second place among U.S. agencies, ringing up total billings of $81.4 million, $400,000 more than...