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Holding that so-called "free competition" is now merely a fetish, Richard W. Hulbert '51 and John G. Morey '52 defended the resolution...
...about $100,000 a year, he was the town's most avid check-snatcher and tipper, its most unflagging patron of flower shops and buyer of sparkling burgundy (which he called "bubble ink"). His pinkish-blond hair was as much a trademark as his open-throat shirt, his fetish against wearing hats, ties or overcoats. "I'm a publicity hound," he told Cleveland sportwriters when he took over the Indians. And ex-Marine Bill Veeck, who had lost a leg as a result of combat injuries on Bougainville, always made good copy...
...fetish for punctuality is a Rio legend. "If the President has an appointment outside the palace for 9 o'clock," says an aide, "his hat must be brushed and on a table beside the door by 7." On a trip to Bolivia last summer the presidential plane was scheduled for a 6 a.m. takeoff...
...current series of articles marks the second time that the Tribune has "studied radical thoughts at Harvard." In January 1947 Griffin wrote a series on the same subject after spending several days in Cambridge. At that time he wrote that "Harvard makes almost a fetish of permitting radicalism to florish...
...dramatize this point, Manhattan's publicity-wise Museum of Modern Art was staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask...