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Axes for Taxes. From city to city, the Skid Row habitués are finding just about everything they have the urge to wish for, i.e., a place to live in unpressured alcoholic freedom, a place eventually to die in peaceful alcoholic stupor. Food and board are cheap: 50? a night for a flop; two fried eggs, coffee, toast, mush and potatoes for a quarter. Money is adequate: handouts in these generous times are fat; pharmaceutical companies buy blood for $5 a pint if the donor appears sober; relief checks and unemployment compensation are punctual. If all else fails...
...week the case-hardened habitués of Washington's Embassy Row looked out upon a rare and wonderful spectacle as the British and French, than whom there are none more nimble, played the diplomatic game of foxes and lions to maneuver themselves out of a jam. Not very many days before, Britain's bombers had, to Washington's astonishment, flown off to bomb Egypt, but now Britain's diplomats, unabashed and socially impeccable, and the French, provocative and chop-logical, were talking elliptically about how the alliance was coming back together again and was certainly...
...unlike the habitués of Wall Street, those of 57th Street (and of the East 60s and "70s, to which many galleries have recently migrated) are usually just looking. With a good visual memory and a will for the work, any looker can build a splendid art museum in his own mind-where feet never tire and the lighting is good. Among New York's candidates for such imaginary museums this week were the works shown on these pages. Their quality (and lack of it), as well as their extraordinary range, were typical of the New York...
...Habitués. In Toledo, after spending almost five hours in Sam's Cafe before it closed for the night, Ford G. Belcher and two friends broke into the tavern half an hour later, told police when arrested: "We give Sam all our business...
...costs at $30, or $7.50 for each duck if the hunter got the four-duck limit. Even that made no allowance for gear, ammunition or guns-which ranged from ordinary twelve-gauge single-barrels to over-and-under pieces that could cost as much as $2,500. To the habitués it was worth...