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...Dick Powell is about ready to retire as an actor altogether to devote himself to being a TV executive. Says he: "It's the vanity of the old ham. I look at myself in a TV Guide picture and say, 'Oh, those hog jowls.' I'm tired of trying to hold my stomach...
...been easy for Princeton to compete with two teams that hog the show "THE" game at the end of every football season. In football, unlike track or cross country, only two teams can play at a time. And when it's always Harvard and Yale in the Ivy League's extra-nostalgic season finale, wonders whether it's getting its full third of the Big Three prestige...
Obviously, in the absence of controls there would be no surplus. The prices of some grains might drop to rather low levels, but there would always be someone to buy the commodities. For example, food processing companies, hog raisers, and whiskey manufacturers could absorb more. Indeed, in a system free from vagarious government supports private speculators would undoubtedly hoard cheap grain in years of exceptional abundance, contributing to price stability. When manufacturers are confronted with a glutted inventory of a particular product, they must either cut prices, shift to production of another product, or eventually go out of business. Clearly...
Welles was the kind of man that Henry Adams thought was dying out around the turn of the century. A graduate of Harvard College '14, grandson of Senator Charles Sumner, (who is perhaps best remembered for having said, "A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!") Welles rose rapidly in the diplomatic service. The friendship of Franklin D. Roosevelt and others who recognized him as one of their own were of value in a day in which the State Department was one of Washington's more exclusive clubs...
...knew, and nobody thought of asking her why she had agreed to discuss The Clan in the first place. And so the program lurched toward the murky end. Gleason: "I'm loaded." Lemmon: "I know that." Mannes: "I feel like a deaf mute in a field of hog callers." Joe E. Lewis: "Out of the mouths of babes very often comes-oatmeal...