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...fireworks, dancing (to three orchestras) and tippling (at four bars) were all over, many of the elite-ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland to conspicuously untitled Douglas Fairbanks Jr.-had perhaps even forgotten the purpose of the affair. It was billed as a combined mansion warm ing and coming-out ball for Jeanette Constable Maxwell, 17, daughter of a longtime Getty friend. The party drew excellent notices from the press. "Easily the most fabulous evening since the war," burbled London Daily Express Columnist William Hickey, who also hailed it as "good, oldfashioned, vulgar fun." Another waggish Fleet Streeter...
...months the climax had been build ing. Every meet seemed to produce new headlines, new records, new prodigies. Under challenge, the veterans slowly sweated their way back to top form. Last week 221 teen-agers and oldtimers, the finest group of trackmen in U.S. history, met for two days at Palo Alto, Calif, to struggle for the precious places on the team that will go to the Rome Olympics this August. "The competition will be the best it has ever been," predicted U.S. Olympic Track Coach Larry Snyder...
...meeting of the U.S. Chamber of ment Bankers Association, warned that "signs of an imminent recession are grow ing all the time and should not be ignored. There is no way to tell whether it will come in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year," because of slackening business activity and the de cline in inventory accumulation. He was promptly challenged by Dr. Emerson...
...twice, I think he gets so sore at himself and the fans who are on him he almost says, 'All right, I'll show you. I'll strike out a third time.' And the worse things go, the more the fans get on Mickey, tak ing out their venom at the Yankees who had won so many years that people are fed up with them...
...junior colleges" which teach the basic medical sciences for two years, then send their diploma-holding graduates to enter four-year schools as juniors. This is a vital and valuable service to the four-year schools. Most of their dropouts, averaging 10% (but ranging as high as 19%, depend ing mainly on the thoroughness of their preadmission screen ing), are in the first two years. The result: vacancies in the upper classes, with only 90 M.D.s graduated for every 100 freshmen. There are an estimated 800 such vacancies now, of which fewer than 150 can be filled...