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...second child, now let me see, what was his name? Bullfinch? Clapsaddle? For the life of me I can't remember! But I'll never forget Phineas Drybutter. A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." One little girl repeated this story to her best chum, who said: "Why! my grandmother told just the same story-with different names, of course." And the little girls looked at each other wide-eyed, and said in solemn unison: A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." Thus was an old saying born...
...favorite in the show. One advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...
Incorruptible. In Chicago, bracing himself for this summer's national political conventions, Traffic Police Chief Michael Ahern advised his 1,100 cops to avoid calling delegates "Bud" or "Chum...
...Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton: its members do not have to bother with students or lectures; they get paid (about $5,000 a year) to sit and think. This Merleau-Ponty is eminently well qualified to do. A shy, retiring type, less noticed than his flashier school chum, he has been writing heavy technical works on philosophy ( The Structure of Behavior, The Phenomenology of Perception). In the existentialist cafés, Merleau-Ponty's appointment was greeted with dismay, "Ça alors," protested a young woman in blue denims and a wind jacket, "you think...
Another Caudle chum was Troy Whitehead, a Charlotte machinery manufacturer, whose private plane flew Caudle to Florida twice for deep-sea fishing. Once, Caudle got up the whole party, which included Charles Oliphant, counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. While these pleasant jaunts were going on, the U.S. was investigating Whitehead's tax status. Caudle said he had just a "faint recollection" that he might have telephoned Oliphant about removing a $40,000 tax lien the U.S. had against Whitehead's plant. That would have been "the most normal thing" to do, he said, since he talked...