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Valley Christian's pastor has a direct, put-up-or-shut-up banker's approach to most problems. At the church's annual fund-raising he says: "Give what you think this church is worth to you. If you think it's worth a dime, don't let anybody talk you into giving a dollar...
...game in football, tomorrow's clash is still the most important one of the year for the hordes of Yale and Harvard students and alumni who will flood New Haven to see it. Regardices of past records, any alumnus of either institution will tell you that upsets are a dime a dozen in the service, and they'll produce the records to prove...
When the New York Herald Tribune raised the price of its Sunday paper to 15? ten months ago, the New York Times doggedly stuck to a dime. This week, the Times lost the fight to rising paper and production costs. It reluctantly raised its newsstand price...
...inventions," which fall somewhere between Rube Goldbergian complexity and a shaggy dog story. (Example: a slot machine "which blows off steam, lights up, whistles, makes five minutes of loud silence when you put a dime in it, eventually returns your coin-it's for giving yourself a tip in a self-service restaurant...
Astute, bespectacled Jacob ("Jack") Kapp bought an armful of children's small-sized records at the dime store to try on one of the three phonographs in his house. His three-year-old daughter Myra didn't like them. So Kapp, who is president of Decca Records. Inc., recorded a group of Mother Goose stories just for Myra, on standard-size discs. Myra liked them so much that Kapp put the records on sale...