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...city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered at El Morocco or the Stork Club, and the punters headed for Toots Shor's, mindful of the proprietor's dictum that "a bum who ain't drunk by midnight ain't trying." It was, in short, a wonderful town...
...public service. Many campus volunteer agencies are finding that interest is higher than it has been since the early '70s. Declares Stanford University President Donald Kennedy: "Everybody's view of this generation was that they were careerist, that they were yuppies inthe making. I always thought that was a bum...
Most people don't even turn for this guy. He's kind of shy, the kind of bum who looks guilty when he's shaking you down so it's easy to figure that he doesn't deserve your quarter anyhow. His is an apologetic, bad boy look: "Sorry, Mom, I'm a bum. Can I have my quarter...
Coors officials say they feel their company has taken a bum rap, and have been working hard to insure that the brewery is a model corporate citizen. Fred Rasheed, the national director of the NAACP economic opportunity program agrees that Coors, "has come a long...
While saddened by their plight, Marshall was also intrigued by the seemingly carefree aspects of a homeless person's lifestyle. "I always had a fantasy about being a bum. I thought it would be a kind of freedom," he says. But Marshall discovered that concerns about his next meal and finding a shelter were "a pain...