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Norway's Crown Princess Martha, 46, was getting along fine after an operation for chronic back strain, at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital...
George Patton, able General and chronic martinet, stood on the steps of a medieval English manor and sounded off to his staff: "... I mean business when I fight. I don't fight for fun and I won't tolerate anyone on my Staff who does. . . . Ahead of you lies battle. ... It is inevitable for men to be killed and wounded in battle. But there is no reason why such losses should be increased because of the incompetence and carelessness of some stupid son-of-a-bitch. I don't tolerate such men on my Staff...
Adam Gimbel, a chronic bachelor whom she had met socially some years previously, hired her after a look at some of her theatrical designs-as a "stylist" at Saks. (Stylists were experts in good taste who counseled buyers on what was "chic.") One of her jobs was to go to Paris and buy French models to bring back for Saks to copy. In 1929, he asked her to take over the then slipping Salon Moderne...
...four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...
...over by a student chairman. Each child has a vote. The vote of a four-year-old counts just as much as Neill's or any other teacher's. All school problems are brought before the meeting and suitable punishments (for offenses such as excessive rowdyism or chronic stealing) are voted by a show of hands...