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...present Holy Cross steam is quite different from the ones which have proceeded from Month St. James in the recent past. Crusader linemen used to be large immobile mon; the current vintage is lighter (the program fixes the average weight of the line at 196) and as a result is faster and able to charge harder...
Home from an eleven-week concert tour of Europe, Bandman Duke (Mood Indigo) Ellington reported that he was 16 Ibs. lighter. The secret: "I gave up coffee, tea, and water in Germany-drank nothing but that wonderful German beer. This stuff gets inside you and you feel it's doing something good down there...
...Monthly, Mary Bromfield described life with her farmer-writer husband Louis (Malabar Farm) Bromfield. The contents of his pockets, she noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...
...colonial life had a lighter side, even when it was turned to the Indians. One John Lawson records how the Indians bought their liquor-by the mouthful. "And for this purpose the buyer always makes choice of his man, which is one that has the greatest mouth, whom he brings to the market with a bowl" to spit the liquor in. "The seller looks narrowly to the man's mouth that measures it, and if he happens to swallow any down . . . the merchant . . . does not scruple to knock the fellow down . . . Thereupon the buyer finds another mouthpiece...
...such a farsighted plan to work, there would have to be much for flexibility in retirement policies and wages for the older man. Management would have to provide lighter jobs for the aging worker; labor might even have to agree, in some cases, to an hourly wage cut for the older man. One thing is certain: higher pensions, like higher wages, will have to be paid for by industry-either by higher prices or higher productivity. And higher prices are not the answer. Said Eastman Kodak Co.'s Treasurer Marion B. Folsom, long an expert on pensions...