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...schools where he had little chance of succeeding, calculating that he could thus make his ultimate destination the reformatory. Mirabeau became a first-rate orator. He also fought, went into debt, seduced his tutor's daughter at 13. When he was 16 his father secured a lettre de cachet for him, applied it two years later...
...since the gift did not include the Britannica's (i.e., Sears's) working capital, rich U.C.'s trustees thought they might be getting a pig in a poke. They did not want to risk endowment funds on a property that had long had more cachet than cash (though its domestic sales last year were over $4,000,000, Sears prudently carried the Britannica on its books at $1). Result: Bill Benton himself agreed to put up whatever might be needed to keep it going, took an unnamed percentage of the stock from U.C. to back his investment...
...League pennant last season after 21 years of trying). The picture celebrates the travails and triumphs of a hammy Brooklyn baseball team, the civic and athletic regeneration of its manager, "Butterfingers" Maguire (Lloyd Nolan). The inspiration is authentic, but the film fumbles the atmosphere, fails to capture the special cachet of Brooklyn and "dem bums...
...Karl Baedeker's son Fritz catalogued Britain for future tourist generations with the same 19th-Century Teutonic thoroughness his father had lavished on the rest of Europe. But few British cathedrals, Christopher Wren churches or public monuments rated the final cachet of Baedekerian approval -two asterisks. Salisbury Cathedral did, but the Houses of Parliament got only...
...search for native oracles of U. S. fashion is an old one. Hollywood, with a lag between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were...