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Do-it-Yourself. Once inside the U.S. dome, the Poles were confronted with an outlay of consumer goods as inviting as a mirage in Wonderland-the output of 323 different manufacturers. There were hi-fi radios, sewing machines with pretty demonstrators to show how they worked, a whopping big jukebox...
Glass in the Pocket. Dr. Fuller's well-padded pocketbook has allowed him to move fast when he sees a bargain. What makes his position enviable and almost unique among U.S. museum men is that, as unpaid director and one of the principal backers of the museum, he can...
¶ Vatican officials discovered a new racket flourishing under the noses of the Swiss Guards: forged tickets to papal audiences. Normally issued free by the chief chamberlain, the forged tickets omitted the stamped-on word Gratis, were sold for a pretty tourist penny. Commented the official Demo-Christian newspaper Il...
Furthermore, the Dental School faculty served gratis until 1929. A bequest of Charles A. Brackett D.M.D. '73, who taught without pay at the School for half a century, and a gift of John T. Morse, Jr. '60 led to the endowment fund which began to pay the institution's teachers...
¶ In Hollywood, Cinemogul Spyros Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, admitted that TV "has given us tremendous competition and is rapidly arid vastly improving, with such presentations as the Sadler's Wells Ballet, Peter Pan and The Devil's Disciple, which the people get gratis."