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...question at this point is one of precedent: does the University do well to import outside operators at the risk of putting local ones out of business...
Walter Winchell did not present a problem when Emily Post began piloting Americans along the winding bayous of gracious living, and the proper adjustments of falsies was not a matter of social import. But manners change: this week, Socialite Amy Vanderbilt (a 44-year-old offshoot of the Staten Island Vanderbilts, who is married to Photographer Hans Knopf) brought out a new book of etiquette which is unblushingly concerned with areas of human endeavor which ladies & gentlemen did not discuss-or had not yet discovered-back in the day of the bustle and the Prince Albert beard...
Zeezee did not like the simple life. She bought an elaborate beige villa in Cairo's exclusive Garden City. She bought land, jewels, fancy clothes. Wafd ministers who refused her demands for illegal import licenses were fired; others quit. She and her great & good friend, fat Fuad Serag el Din, the Wafd's secretary general, were frequently seen together in public, made profitable deals in private...
...from Lima, Peru, changed trades. He decided that he could make more money selling guano fertilizer (bird droppings) than from ship supplies He was right. By the time he died in 1904. his W. R. Grace & Co. was a multimillion-dollar empire whose ship lines, sales agencies, railroads and import-export business touched almost every town and hamlet along South America's west coast...
Harry Truman, who had defied one lobby by refusing to raise the tariff on Swiss watches (TIME, Aug. 25), last week defied another. Despite the protests of 13,000 independent U.S. oil producers, he approved a slash of as much as 50% in import duties on Venezuelan oil (e.g., from 10½? to 5¼? on "low gravity" oil), and abolished all import quotas...