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...ground while Texas Quarterback Duke Carlisle mixed straightforward runs with pass-option plays to gain an economical 150 yds. In true Royal style, Texas' sophomore backs Phil Harris and Tommy Stockton scored twin touchdowns on little-bitty three-yard runs; shoeless Placekicker Tony Crosby added the insult by running his string of conversions to 24 straight and toeing a 42-yd. field goal in his stockinged feet. At game's end, the score was Texas 17, T.C.U. 0-and Royal's Longhorns, the only unbeaten and untied major college team in the U.S., had clinched at least...
...this notebook. According to Author McLaughlin, "Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac." It's good for aphorists...
Nevertheless, Peruvians of every political stripe clamored for action against the I.P.C. contract as a living insult to their national dignity. In last June's national elections every major-and minor-party denounced the oil company. The army had already called the agreement "injurious to national sovereignty." Major newspapers were against I.P.C.-even La Prensa, Lima's prestigious daily owned by former Premier Pedro Beltrán, who is probably the best friend U.S. businessmen ever had in Peru. The end of I.P.C.'s privileged position, said La Prensa, was "an aspiration of all Peruvians...
...syndicated column gave her a new leverage in the publicity-oriented world of the jet-setters, and Elsa knew how to use it. In print she staged a schoolgirl crush over the late Aly Khan and an insult-fest with Opera Star Maria Callas. When she suddenly turned into a devout Callas admirer, gossipmongers inevitably asked each other in what language Callas' husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, had talked to Elsa. Maxwell readers also thrilled to a three-year feud with the Duchess of Windsor, which had its well-publicized happy ending aboard the United States on Easter Sunday...
...lived, generously, and this fact alone put him at a disadvantage with people. His early letters record his triumphs over the demon gin; his defeats were recorded by others. Because he was a famous young man, he could never anonymously fall down a flight of stairs or insult his hostess or make a howling clown of himself, because someone was always there industriously to record a momentary superiority to a man who had temporarily made an idiot of himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough...