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...whatever declaration the taxpayer makes. This year, at the urging of U.S. Marshall Plan officials, the government decided to reform all that. Under the new tax law, filled with all kinds of clauses to tempt the taxpayer to be honest, income tax blanks went on sale (another curious Italian custom) in the nation's tobacco shops at 25 lire (4?) each. But last week, when tax returns fell due, the mice couldn't get at the cheese. Speculators had bought up the whole available supply of tax blanks, and were selling them at black market prices ranging...
...respect, ticket selling will differ all year from last season's custom. Instead of sales starting at 8:30 a.m., they will begin at 1 p.m. Lunden said the change was made because the H.A.A. felt too many students were missing classes by getting entangled in the morning lineup...
After that day in 1939, James Jefferson Davis Hall, Alabama-born Episcopalian who moved to Manhattan in 1924, spent most of his time answering calls to his number, Circle 6-6483. It was an unorthodox mission, but the spry, bearded old pastor had never let custom stand in his way. For nine years, from 1928 to 1937, he had preached to noon-hour crowds in the downtown financial district, become known as "The Bishop of Wall Street." Now he became "Dad" Hall, the telephone preacher, and as word of his number spread, he got dozens of calls a day. Each...
...Slurping drinks: "This probably comes unconsciously from the custom when drinking Japanese tea, but it is surprising how many persons regarded as having considerable culture unthinkingly do this...
Museum judges shuffled through photographs of some 35 years of automaking, from early Bugattis and Stutz Bearcats to a 1951 Ford. Eliminating limousines and custom-built cars, they finally chose five European and three U.S. models for display. Then Curator Arthur Drexler wrote a learned catalogue discussing their "excellence as works...