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...Hock-High in Horses. Happily contradicting this gloomy picture is the better military academy, more academic than military, which is actually a first-rate college preparatory school. Perhaps the best example is Indiana's big (838 boys) Culver Military Academy on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. Last week Culver was putting on a $5,000,000 fund-raising campaign for a "Program for Excellence" that will create 70 new scholarships, build a center for alumni and parents, endow faculty salaries with $2,250,000. Even without all this, Culver has more excellence than most civilian schools...
Talk is not cheap at the United Nations, which is usually in hock up to its earphones because delinquent members fail to pay their dues. Year after year, the U.S. picks up the check for more than one-third of the U.N.'s total costs. Of this year's regular $64 million assessments, the U.S. was assigned $22.3 million, has already paid...
...waning public appetite for vulgarity in journalism had turned the Hearst papers into anachronisms, with little experience in what the new reader wanted. In 1937 a team of horrified accountants, assigned to probe Hearst's 94-corporation maze, discovered that The Chief was $126 million in hock. Neither Hearst nor his papers ever recovered from their retrenchment...
...accountant whose only distinction is that his brother is Shelmerdine Peacock, the famous Hollywood star. At the annual company dinner, Accountant Peacock tries desperately-and fails-to attract attention with his Negro-dialect reminiscences ("The last time I saw 1'il ole brudder Shel . . ."). Fortified with whisky, sherry, hock, Volnay and brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit of Queen Victoria-whose portrait stares disapprovingly at him from...
...instructor at the University of Cracow; the Nazis packed him off to Belsen and Dachau, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Surviving somehow, Sol escaped to the U.S. and prosperity; but at 45 he is a grey echo of a man. By day he shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading Chekhov and Tolstoy in Russian...