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...bland reply, Silberstein promised that all would be well, but conceded one seat on the eight-man Penn-Texas board to his Morse-led stockholders. They claimed that they control more than 1,000,000 of 4,700,000 Penn-Texas shares outstanding, may even end up with as many as three seats when the proxies are counted...
Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit...
...occasionally brilliantly evocative, e.g., in the tiny, clear sounds of the orchestra accompanying the words "The evening star hung like a drop of water in the sky" following an Indian rain dance. In other sections the music is fragmented by the necessities of text and sounds merely like a bland movie sound track...
Gone are the old mossbacks whose railroads ran by steam and tobacco juice. Today's operating man is younger and more flexible, an efficiency-minded innovator who spends his working hours figuring ways to apply 20th century technology to his 19th century railroad. A typical example is Downing Bland Jenks, trail-blazing 41-year-old boss of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Says he: "You don't have to look 50 or 100 years ahead to see what railroading is coming to. We could operate our whole system automatically right now, if it weren...
Peerless at Princeton. Listerine was the creation of Lambert's father, a chemist who developed the antiseptic formula (useful in that it was bland and harmless to skin and other tissue). Father Lambert scraped together sufficient funds to get to London and there "invested his last dollar in an elegant carriage with a liveried coachman." Helped by this haughty equipage, he coaxed from Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the right to christen the new formula with the great man's name...