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Mayer laughed and moved down the line to carefully consider the choice of salads. He picked up a plastic wrapped three-bean salad and then paused before the fruit. "Are you sure you won't have some fruit?" he asked his luncheon guest. She shook her head. "Not even an apple?" he persisted. He filled a glass with lemonade...
...days later Bok was "still considering what quantity of Boston baked beans would be appropriate to celebrate the happy Cincinnati victory," according to a message relayed yesterday through his administrative assistant, Elizabeth Keul. Keul attributed the delay in the bean-quantity decision to "other time commitments...
...issue of bean quantity, Bennis said Bok had only mentioned a "small portion" in his October 13 reply to Bennis's challenge. "But smallness in Harvard terms may be large in Midwestern terms," he said...
...department may be quickly dismissed as amateurish--a hopeless waste of a very large budget, lots of locations and extras, etc. But his scriptwriter is something to be reckoned with--he has made quite a lot of money for pictures like Dirty Harry, Dillinger, Jeremiah Johnson, Judge Roy Bean. And it's terrifying to know that people responded to these films--they play on the most violent and degrading of fantasies. Fortunately The Wind and the Lion was badly directed, and though it has been making money it's not the smash it was cooked up to be, Lucky...
Elsewhere, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford meet secretly to discuss their beliefs in reincarnation. Morgan has spent millions harvesting civilization's mystic wisdom. Ford, in his ready-made suit and L.L. Bean shoes, notes dryly that his occult education came from a 250 booklet ordered from the Franklin Novelty Co. of Philadelphia. It is the same organization that will buy moving-picture flip-books from a penniless Jewish immigrant. The peddler will end in Hollywood as Baron Ashkenazy, producer of those Rosetta stones of American nostalgia, the Our Gang comedies...