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...Sebring dictum must be strictly observed: "Oil is for machinery and moving parts; unless you have a screw loose, it has no place on the head." Cigars, Facials. Chicago, for all its Midwestern spittoons-on-the-floor masculinity, has at least two beauty shops for men. Biggest is Bayard's Hair Studio, where it is not an uncommon sight to see a husky customer sitting with a cigar in his mouth and a hairnet on his head, as an operator uses a hand dryer to finish up his permanent wave. Owner Tom Bayard (who wears one of the toupees...
...rocking chair can have such a young wife." Said Kennedy to Benny, who is 68, going on 39: "I'm very glad you could come to a birthday party for an older man." The President assured his audience that his father's "All businessmen are s.o.b.s" dictum did not apply to show business. But it was Marilyn who was the hit of the evening, and Kennedy plainly meant it when he said, "I can now retire from politics after having had Happy Birthday sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome...
...romantic interest, boy-meets-girl, attractive girls, love stories-nothing immoral that would be out of place on the home screen." Onward. But Dodd was unsatisfied with learning that sex is a many-splendored thing. "We have heard such terms as the 'Kintner edict,' the 'Aubrey dictum' and what could be termed the 'Treyz [for Oliver, recently jettisoned ABC president] trend,' a trend, I might add, away from the high moral standards of practice set by each network," he said darkly. "A look at the history of those three gentlemen may give a clue...
...touching and frequently funny, but it is also disquieting in a way that the author cannot have intended. The trouble is that, wrongly or not, today's readers are not schooled to accept the gift of charm graciously. Charm seems false, because reality-so runs the sophisticated dictum -is unpleasant. Actually, it is a matter of distance from the subject: from afar the faces of the poor (or of the rich) have no features; at a middle distance, they can be charmingly picaresque; at close quarters their skin is seamed with dirt...
...average U.S. businessman, beset as he is by a daily avalanche of forms, reports and correspondence, than the late "Engine Charlie" Wilson's axiom that "nothing takes place in the world of government or business that is not motivated by a piece of paper." Every repetition of this dictum, however, brings a beatific smile to the face of bulky, deliberate Milferd Aaron Spayd, 61, of Dayton, Ohio. Thanks to U.S. industry's ever deeper entrapment in paperwork, Spayd's Standard Register Co. has surged from onetime bankruptcy to buoyant prosperity as one of the nation...