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...when Chopin wintered there with piano and Mistress George Sand, Majorca was a Mediterranean Bali Ha'i far off the beaten tourist track. Since then, thanks to cut-rate package vacations and a climate even kindlier than Spain's Costa Brava, the island has become a kind of Costa Coney (436,000 visitors last year), where the local patois in peak season is more Cockney than Catalan...
...dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures of his day, and ruled much of the movie business with his special brand of sanctimonious piracy...
Long ago, in a simpler, kindlier age, Harvard University was a football power. In 1919, for example, its football machine rolled up a total of 222 points, as against 13 for its opponents. Its record marred only by a 10-10 tie with Princeton, the Crimson accepted a bid to Pasadena; and on January 1, 1920, Harvard ushered in a new decade by becoming the first Eastern team to win the Rose Bowl...
...solid opposition to variable annuities in most states. Only Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky and the District of Columbia have so far licensed home-based companies to sell the policies. With the precedent of a court decision, state insurance commissioners may well regard the variable annuity with a kindlier eye. Meanwhile, the two victorious District of Columbia companies, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. and Equity Annuity Life Insurance Co., plan to step up their selling campaigns...
Even though TIME wouldn't be very happy to see Adlai Stevenson in the White House, let alone think he has a ghost of a chance in November, you are to be commended for your fine article, "The Other Adlai." It's high time you demonstrated a kindlier attitude towards Adlai because, incredible as it may seem, there are quite a few of us that really love that "egghead...