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...Manhattan Real Estate Broker William J. Hirschman knew, the two men might have been planning to hijack an airliner, breed whales or launch an armada. Otherwise, why would they want a building with at least 50,000 sq. ft. of floors, 40-ft.-high ceilings, and no interior columns? As it turned out, Ben Lieberman and Luke Sapan were neither subversives nor quacks, but high-powered businessmen with an abiding fondness for tennis and the determination to turn it from a strictly seasonal sport into a year-round affair...
...complete victory. Not since the New York Times' expose of Boss Tweed has any newspaper crusade been so unqualifiedly successful as your defeat of the HCUA. Others who consider that student government at Harvard is a waste of precious time have ignored it, but they are a lesser breed than you. Hardly has a day gone by when your courageous pages have not declared to all the world that the HCUA is a joke! Less dedicated editors might have been tempted to cooperate with University officials and "student leaders" in drawing up plans to improve student representation at Harvard...
...winningest dog of all time was a little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with a fair degree of accuracy. "If you breed two good rail runners," says Florida Trainer Oscar Duke, "at least six out of eight pups will be rail runners...
...places where a bright woman with ideas, who is content to wear a costume ring instead of a wedding band, can rise to rule the executive suite. Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor until her death at 61 in 1959, was the archetype of the breed. At elegant Henri Bendel, Geraldine Stutz became president at 33, has successfully given her store an aura of yé-yé. Last week able, low-keyed Mildred Custin, 58, took over as president of twelve Bonwit Teller stores that stretch from Fifth Avenue headquarters south to Palm Beach and west to Oakbrook...
...straining look that is a jet-age hallmark. But its wings stuck almost straight out from its sides with the leisurely air of an old-fashioned puddle jumper. The contradiction is designed to make General Dynamics' slow-fast F-111A fighter-bomber the forerunner of a whole new breed of military aircraft operating in two worlds of speed...