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...stuff. Unfortunately, Mr. Tigar, or whoever, seems to find the dross screamingly funny, and the music rather second-rate. Consequently, he has built up an unmusical and ungainly case which closely resembles the staggerer I posed to you a while back, and he has stuffed the poor Yeomen as chock full of yoks, boffs, and sundry other howl-makers as a year's supply of DesiLu half-hour shows...
...boarding school"; Plato advocated childhood conditioning, censorship and "compulsory virtue"; Fourier had "a pathological lust for social tidiness." Said Huxley: "Most utopists have had the souls, but happily not the effective power, of drill sergeants and dictators." Blonde Jean Martin Black, 34, who used to croon coffee commercials for Chock Full O'Nuts when she was married to its bossman, had a heavenly idea. Since her niggardly $3,000-a-month alimony from ex-Husband William Black, 53, didn't go very far after she paid her $1,100 rent at Manhattan's Imperial House...
Married. William Black, 53, chunky, outspoken founder of the Chock Full O' Nuts coffee-packing and quick-lunch chain; and Vocalist Page Morton, 32, the second wife in a row whom Philanthropist Black (who bankrolled the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and recently donated a $5,000,000 medical research building to Columbia University) has employed to sing his company's TV commercials; he for the third time, she for the first; in Stamford, Conn...
...alumnus ('20) whose cool $5,000,000 gift in 1960 was the biggest ever received by Columbia from a living man. On hand was William Black himself, a self-styled "poor kid from Brooklyn," who parlayed a Times Square nut stand into the $33.7 million-a-year Chock Full O'Nuts Corp. At such ceremonies, the honored donor's speech is expected to contain a little modest reminiscence and some high-minded platitudes. What Black delivered instead was a brief, jarring indictment of "unessential" philanthropies. In two minutes flat, he denounced: > Columbia's plan...
...tiny Swiss mountain village of Unterwasser, near the Austrian border, live people with names like Tsering Ken-chock, Tashi Samdup and D'Olma Doji. Instead of being apple-cheeked blonds, they are brown-faced, black-haired, almond-eyed, and smell faintly of rancid yak butter...