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Much of the managerial lore was learned the hard way by League Executive Secretary Helen M. Thompson, 47, an amateur violinist who from 1942 to 1950 was manager of the symphony in Charleston (pop. 73,500). "I made all the usual mistakes in succession," she says cheerfully, "some of them twice." Among her mistakes...
Spare the Rod. Historian Davis has unearthed some strange phrenological lore. There was, for instance, the man who picked horses by studying the shape of their skulls. Horace Greeley suggested that in the interests of safe train travel, brakemen should have the right-shaped head. There was even phrenological housing: Orson Fowler had built a mansion in the shape of an octagon, which started quite a fashion for octagonal houses...
...Skipper never served in Paris, the fount of his lore, but Dick did. Foresightedly, the Marine Corps sent the young officer there in 1952 to command the U.S. embassy guard, a plush detail enabling him to swallow new wines and sauces at great restaurants, while adding and subtracting their stars in the Guide Michelin. After a hitch in Korea (where raw spider crabs caked in crushed red pepper failed to thrill him), Captain McCutchen went to Ohio State University to teach naval science...
...long evening or night's traveling to complete the exhaustion. Strange circumstances in a distant hotel; a good deal of alcohol perhaps, or worse, the hangover from it six hours ago-these all make the [male] as . . . ineffectual as[he] is ever likely to be In addition, the lore of the honeymoon-the vast repertory of awful jokes, none dignified-may be added to the anxiety ... At best there may be a hopeless anxious fumbling effort, certain to complete the rout of a tense, frightened ashamed and embarrassed girl. . . Indeed it almost seems wonderful that any marriages have ever...
...session, the legislature passed a bill to install an electric chair and use it, but somewhere along the line the lawmakers balked at providing the appropriation. So, Don Jesse Neal was given his choice-but he added his own unique contribution to Utah firing-squad lore by firmly declining to choose. "There'll be no execution," he said confidently, protesting his innocence-but there...