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...almost always a saving. For one thing, they do not have to tie up capital. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad concludes that by leasing instead of buying a fleet of 150 cars, it frees $450,000 a year for other investments. Corporations often want to be spared the bother of buying, maintaining and keeping insurance on a fleet of autos, and are able to write off their leased cars as a business expense rather than having to take a less favorable depreciation allowance on their own cars...
...teach guts. The modern European history course given by Yale's eminent Hajo Holborn, though currently in abeyance because he is on leave, customarily enrolls some 350 students, who rely on a couple of textbooks, call the course "Page a Day with Hajo Holborn," and don't bother much about lectures. Virtually promised grades of more than 85, they merely await questions that rarely change from year to year. Harvard's famed Crane Brinton freely admits that he "likes undergraduates and doesn't want to make them work too hard." A 30-page paper is required...
...Weir is a worthy successor to Archie Rice of The Entertainer. The high point of the film is his accusation from the dock, an indictment of English life for being stuffy, unsympathetic, and dirty-minded, as powerful a speech in its way as was the song "Why Should I Bother to Care?" that Rice sang in the other film. Sir Laurence points up the full character of the schoolteacher so well that at times the surrounding players seem wooden and semi-caricatures; only Terence Stamp and Hugh Griffith come even close to the featured player...
...losses do not bother Cantinflas. "I have lots of money," he says. "I was born in the slums, and I lived in the slums until I was practically a man. I know what poverty...
...writing, that's typing." Novelist Nelson Algren was unable to goad either Sloan Wilson or Herman Wouk into a full-dress feud when he wrote: "If The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit married Marjorie Morningstar on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't bother to go to the wedding...