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...been associated with Clay Felker and New York magazine since its founding, I would like to correct your story. It was filled with adjectives chosen to portray Felker in as harsh a light as possible. But you missed some that I'd like to add: he is loyal, generous, scrupulously honest and dynamic to the point that his enthusiasms fueled the lives of those who worked...
...circular bar of his original Manhattan bistro. "Drinkin', that's my way of prayin'," he would say. Shor was a star-struck sports fan, and his friends ranged from the Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more than $60,000 on a World Series bet, and would carry down-and-out customers on the cuff for months on end. Master of the boorish putdown, he called his famous customers "creeps" and "crumb-bums." "If he doesn't insult you, he doesn...
...expenditure of $4 billion to $6 billion. Nor is Carter likely to go along with Ford's proposal to cut the $5.6 billion food-stamp program by $900 million. But for the most part, the Carter Administration can live quite comfortably with Ford's unexpectedly generous legacy. Says Bert Lance, incoming director of the Office of Management and Budget: "Basically, the Carter budget will be a Ford budget...
WHEN THE LATE Ward M. Canaday '08 gave Harvard enough money to build a new dormitory several years ago, he probably had no idea that his generous gift would someday force freshmen out of the Quad Houses. But that, in effect, is what will happen, if the discussion at Wednesday's special meeting of the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life is any indication. And even if the Quad does not house only upperclassmen within a year or two, Canaday's gift will have sparked a long often rancorous debate among students, masters, and administrators about the future...
That snippet of typically Israeli black humor rings mighty true. The inflation rate in Israel during 1976 averaged 42%. The foreign debt stands at $10.7 billion-which is roughly the same as Israel's gross national product. By the most generous reckoning the G.N.P. grew by 2.8% last year. And the unemployment rate, which in the past hardly ever rose above 3%, is creeping up toward 5%. Small wonder that the economy is a central issue in this spring's special elections forced by the resignation of Premier Yitzhak Rabin (TIME...