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...Myers commercials. He ordinarily treats them with a disdain that is the equivalent of a fastidious man brushing a particularly repellent caterpillar off his lapel. After one drama, Hitchcock said gloomily: "As you know, someone must always pay the piper. Fortunately, we already have such a person. This philanthropic gentleman wishes to remain anonymous, but perhaps the more discerning of our audience will be able to find a clue to his identity in the following commercial." When the sales message has ended, Hitchcock is apt to say: "Over so soon? My, time certainly passes quickly when you're being...
...knew 25 years ago what Bolshevism means, and it's never too late to repent." The younger character was Arthur Koestler, now 50, and he found the old man's attitude highly irritating. U.S. readers who, unlike Arthur Koestler, have never been Communists, may share the old gentleman's complacency; but if they do, they will be missing a bet from one of the world's liveliest intellectual tipsters...
...measures, whatever scandalous form they may take. One wonders what will become of the geographical distributee, the Southern or Western wanderer who must traverse great distances to reach his festive home. For, unless the University allows students more holiday time before Christmas than it has of late, the young gentleman from the hinterlands would be hard put to reach home before the department store Santa Claus closes up shop...
Harvard's job was a lot simpler in some ways in the old days when the gentleman 'C' student, here for four pleasant years, was so common a type. In the Twenties, when the number on the Dean's List averaged under 20 per cent, the faculty could, if it wished, ignore a large proportion of its students. Now we find last year's Freshman class with 40 per cent on the Dean's List and we are approaching the time when 50 per cent of the College will be on the Dean's List and 60-70 per cent...
Toohy said that under a "gentleman's agreement" with the city, there is no discrimination against student drivers. "We ticket the students, and the city police ticket everyone else," he explained. "This, however, does not prevent city police from ticketing the students if they don't comply with parking regulations," Toohy admitted...