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Then there was the income tax, the world wars, and a kind of modern-times puritanism that mournful Saratogians refer to scathingly as "Kefauver fever." The Spa seemed suddenly spent. The Club House became a museum, and the last open crap game had to start floating 13 years ago. The United States Hotel became a parking lot and stores, and the Grand Union is now a shopping center, with a supermarket of the same name. Broadway is a honky-tonk jumble of shoeshine stands, rooming houses and has-been hotels...
...York harbor sailed Holland-America's liner Rotterdam, carrying nearly 700 notables on a sort of floating crap game to benefit the American Cancer Society. With tickets sold at $125 to $750 apiece-and "gamblers" paid off in donated minks, diamonds, motor scooters and other goodies-the take was upwards of $123,000. But all-at-sea was the place to be for such socialites as Governor and Mrs. Rockefeller and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (see THE NATION). An eye-catcher even in that company was svelte Shipmate Gloria Lee Barrie, 35, whose husband George, 49, president...
...time accountants with cost-conscious controllers, lean to computers and automated distribution warehouses in place of production charts and pushcarts. On a shopping spree of their own, they are buying up smaller companies, expanding into Europe, financing on Wall Street. After hearing their business for years compared to a crap game, they are finding themselves lionized by analysts because of their sustained earnings and growth. "After 40 years in the business," admits Majestic Specialties' President Erwin Klineman, "I may even take a management course this summer...
...left alone. His father is dead, the housekeeper has taken the Greyhound, and even de Wilde decides to strike out for some greener grassland where men like Douglas may still be. Unrepentant, Hud gives the nephew a parting shot of philosophy: "The world is so full of crap a man is going to get it sooner or later, whether he is careful or not." Then Hud swaggers into the empty house, opens a can of beer, and slams down the shade on the kitchen door against the sunlight of the late afternoon...
...Livestock now operates in 35 of the 50 states, writes 5,000 policies a year. When Harding and Tomson decided to form the company, both were livestock breeders and Harding also acted as U.S. agent for Lloyd's of London's livestock insurance business. "This is a crap-shooting business," says Harding. "We're betting against the roll of the dice." So far, he and Tomson have called the dice pretty well. Since 1954, American Livestock's annual premium volume has nearly tripled, to $1,800,000, and the company has made a profit...