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...appearance of rabbits who looked vaguely unhappy. A civilian patriot thought that spoofs of barracks life on Phil Silvers' You'll Never Get Rich were tearing down the fabric of the armed forces. When a character in a drama announced that he would forgo his M.D. ambitions and settle for becoming a chiropractor, howls arose from chiropractors. Securities dealers and the New York Stock Exchange itself kick at the sight of a shady stockbroker, and Manhattan pawnbrokers (many of whom are of Irish extraction) squirm in writing at what they sometimes consider anti-Jewish characterizations...
...Hawrelak. Inheriting a $1,500,000 building fund when he took office five years ago, he fattened it from such civic windfalls as the $647,000 plum gained from a favorable turn of the exchange rate on borrowed U.S. dollars. By the time Hawrelak persuaded his fellow citizens to forgo other desperately needed civic improvements to start the city hall, he had the cash in sight...
...final drastic step, Macmillan had asked the U.S. and Canada to forgo this year's interest on their postwar loans to Britain ($81.6 million to the U.S., $22.2 million to Canada), and had been informed by the U.S. Treasury that Congress would almost certainly consent. In Britain's current anti-American mood this was a humiliating and unpopular move, but it was one that would keep a precious $104 million available for the defense of the pound...
...every known measuring stick, the $64,000 Question is the nation's No. 1 TV show. Every Tuesday night some 13 million Americans forgo reading, bypass the movies and other forms of entertainment to watch a carefully picked group of eccentric specialists give everyone a vicarious feeling of cupidity. Last week promoters of the show tried to lure a bigger audience than ever with newspaper ads to ballyhoo a mysterious "world-famous guest." As the guest walked front and center, the announcer intoned: "Our next guest on the golden threshold of the $64,000 Question is from Suffolk, England...
...tree spreads its shadow over the artless stories told by Bessiewallis* about grandmother's "victoria," her first sausage curls, her posh uncles like S. Davies Warfield, who grandly inserted a notice in the newspapers that because of "the appalling catastrophe now devastating Europe" (it was 1915), he would "forgo the ball that he might otherwise be expected to give for his niece Wallis Warfield...