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...their 60 cents the freshmen will get beer, cokes, doughnuts, sandwiches, ice cream, cigarettes, and tobacco to smoke in over 700 corn cob pipes stamped with the name Harvard Freshman Smoker...
...studio which makes movies. In order to assure the continuation of his paycheck, the employee would logically vote at least one film award to his studio, and perhaps the straight ticket if he's a good man. Even if he's only allowed by his union to spray cob-webs in studio haunted houses, he's wise enough to know the immense exploitation value in an Academy Award. I'm not sure which came first in each case, but the Best Film of the Year has always been a terrific money-maker...
...Cob-nosed Wallace Sterling, 42, is an ex-football player himself (at the University of Toronto), who also likes to raise delphiniums. The son of an Ontario minister, he taught history and coached football at Saskatchewan's Regina College, then moved to the U.S. in 1932. While earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, he became a history instructor at CalTech. Most Californians know him best as a weekly radio news commentator (for Day & Night water heaters). Last spring he became director of the famed Huntington Library and Art Gallery at San Marino, Calif...
...phony mustaches, were strictly corny. But last week, while many another U.S. nightclub with tonier entertainment was as empty as the inside of a kettledrum, Chicago's old standby, the Blackhawk Restaurant, couldn't find room for all the customers who wanted it straight off the cob...
Social Security. Under the weeping willow trees outside, Hoover sat down with state functionaries to an Iowa lunch of fried chicken, corn on the cob and a huge birthday cake, while spectators gawked from beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch...