Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minnesota club has an advantage, Peddie says, in that "Glimp and his committee have a slight bias for these small town boys. Give 'em one from Long Prairie and they get enthused . . . willing to take a gamble. They add a little bit in their minds to his Board scores...
...reputedly a New York newspaperman) who loves a poxy and paranoid Russian cryptoprincess; the girls who sit around their brothel parlors scratching themselves "like chimpanzees"; the tortured expatriate Fillmore who cries out the tragicomedy of the Lost Generation: "Sure, I hate those puritanical buggers back home-I hate 'em with all my guts. But I'm one of them myself. I don't belong here. I'm sick of it." After all the jokes about bidets, venereal disease, and dramas of nymphomania and perversion, poor Fillmore has a point...
...Pastor Wyrick seems to share the old circus maxim that "the first thing to do is get 'em in the tent," he makes no apologies. He believes that only the people who are in the church can hear the sermon. "I feel that I'm doing God's work," he said last week, "but just because it's God's work I don't have to be on a mountaintop. You get the respect you deserve, and you don't get any more for sitting on a pedestal...
...em both ways," explained one smiling druggist. "Before exams they're desperate to stay awake--and afterwards they're so keyed up they can't sleep...
Died. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, 73, onetime $3-a-week Wall Street delivery boy who made and lost thousands on market tips, parlayed a string of good ones into a $150,000 New York Stock Exchange seat in 1926, reportedly made $10 million selling short in 1930; of complications following heart surgery; in Houston. Smith earned his nickname when the market collapsed on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929. by rushing into his office shouting: "Sell 'em. They're not worth anything...