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...Club supplies the dozen-odd members of the College's ski team, which competes for the Crimson both officially and unofficially, Cabot said. Races are under the direction of William Halsey, a veteran of the Dartmouth ski team before entering the Graduate School of Design...
London is what Norman Collins' book is really about. Percy and his blonde are simply two of the dozen-odd principal characters used by Author Collins as a means of mapping London-south from Camden Town, north from Wapping. Absent from his map is the London that is most familiar to most tourists-the picture-postcard world in the shadow of Big Ben. Omnipresent are the vast areas few tourists ever see, and ways of life that few would associate with England...
Beautilities. But Dr. Schlumbohm's gadgets are not for morons only. Nor are they cheap. His dozen-odd household appliances, which are the only inventions he manufactures, look like no utensils in the ordinary kitchen, have been frequently exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art. He thinks this only natural because "If you make a thing as simple and efficient as possible, it is bound to be beautiful." And, he has also found, highly profitable. His sales of Chemex ($3.50 to $12) reached $200,000 last year. His Tubadipdrips ($7.50 and $9.50) and Tempots ($135) should boost this year...
Murphy clients are a dozen-odd industrial VIPs (Westinghouse Electric, Pacific Mills, Columbia Broadcasting) and some 250 individual VIPs who pay a flat fee for the general service. When the clients' star customers, big dealers and other sacred cows turn up in New York, Murphy gives them "the treatment." Usual ingredients: choice hotel rooms, choice train and plane reservations, choice sport and theater tickets, choice Scotch. Says Murphy: "Most people who come to New York on a business trip don't know what the score is. They want a lot of things, but, especially in times like these...
...shoe manufacturer, Zeckendorf went to public schools in New York and to New York University. For a dozen-odd years in & out of various realty firms, he had been only a moderate success: he didn't know enough of the right people. When, in the course of one of his deals, he ran into W. & K., it was like loose lightning being drawn to a lake...