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...Debate Council, as host, did not enter a team, but Robert H. King '57 upset the defending champion, Robert Smith of Dartmouth in the Impromptu Speaking Division. In the finals at the banquet Saturday impromptu finalists gave five minute off the cuff speeches on current news topics drawn at random...
...year of the "no-no-down" payment mortgage (the builder pays the closing costs), the year when autos were funneled out with no money down, up to 42 months to pay. In Corpus Christi, Texas, movie houses even urged patrons to put admissions, popcorn and peanuts on the cuff, while in Omaha, one pet-shop owner went so far as to sell an orangutan on the installment plan...
...wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints for husbands: 1) take an hour to dress, 2) always wear suspenders, 3) in public be gartered, 4) flash at least half an inch of cuff below jacket sleeves, 5) always wear a vest with a single-breasted suit, 6) avoid an excess of jacket padding, 7) get chummy with a good tailor...
...stick to the stuff they wrote in the old Group Theater and WPA days. Judas crops up again (in The Upraised Pinion) as a dim fellow with a remarkable physical resemblance to Whittaker Chambers, who sells out the party for $24 a day to an FBI smoothie with gold cuff links...
...like the popular conception of a gangster, model 1929. He has bright, wild eyes, and his movements suggest spring steel; he talks out of the corner of his mouth. He dresses with a glaring, George Raft kind of snazziness-rich, dark shirts and white figured ties, with ring and cuff links that almost always match. He had, at last count, roughly $30,000 worth of cuff links. "He has the Polo Grounds for a closet," says a friend. In one compartment hang more than too suits. In another there are 50 pairs of shoes, each shoe set on a separate...