Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalistic style of punning was created by the Algonquin Round Table of the '20s and '30s. Dubbed the Vicious Circle, it became Prohibition's bottlefield, where columnists tailed their wags and reported puns the instant they were composed. When a Vassar girl eloped, Playwright George S. Kaufman announced that she had "put the heart before the course." Dorothy Parker confessed that in her own poetry she was always "chasing Rimbauds." Alexander Woollcott knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm...
...Civil Liberties Union and Law Professor Herman Schwartz of Buffalo learned of the girls' plight and decided to challenge the law. Circuit Court Judge Irving R. Kaufman endorsed that challenge. "The law permitted punishment as if they were criminals," said Kaufman. "But they are punishing a condition, not a crime. How are you going to define moral depravity?" Setting aside the girls' convictions, the three-man federal court denounced the Wayward Minor statute as "unconstitutionally vague...
Even before the Kaufman decision, the statute had fallen into such disrepute that it had recently been allowed to expire-though not in the case of anyone already convicted. As of last week, 236 youths were under sentence as wayward, and 221 of them, including the three girls, were out on parole or probation. They will now all go free, unless the state appeals. Says Judge Kaufman: "The state will simply have to find different ways to treat these youths. Foster homes, halfway houses-but not penal institutions...
...material costs and wages, are counting on the exuberant demand to continue throughout most of 1972. Though the Commerce Department reported last week that housing starts fell in September for the first time in five months, industry leaders remain buoyant. Says Eli Broad, chairman of Los Angeles' Kaufman & Broad, a big home builder: "I still think we're going to reach a record 2,000,000 starts this year...
...reason for plastic's new-found popularity, even in once off-limits living and dining rooms, is summed up by Los Angeles Housewife Audrey Kaufman: "It's light and it's fun, the colors are marvelous, and all you have to do to clean it is wipe it off." The new furniture comes in a dazzling variety of colors and shapes. There are orange, red, green and yellow bookcases, Parsons tables and nesting tables. There are stools that can be converted in an instant into planters or round tables. There are chairs resembling eggshells, wombs and opened...