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...later, Eddie returned to New York, but could not even sing up a good supper, let alone rent; at one point he was sleeping in Central Park. As a last resort, he joined up with a vocal quintet that played second-class movie and burlesque houses. To supplement their meager take, the members sometimes rented advertising space on the backs of their costumes; at the end of the act the quintet would about-face and reveal plugs for a local line of baby clothes or strawberry...
...Western United States, and therefore the country as a whole, faces bank-ruptcy and disaster if today's meager water supplies are not carefully conserved, prominent historian and author Bernard DeVoto '18 warned last night...
Verve & Nerve. Réaltiés was founded in 1946 on unlimited hope and a meager $5,000 by two aggressive young businessmen, Humbert Frerejean and Didier Rémon. Frerejean, then 31, was working in the personnel department of a steel concern, and Rémon, then 24, with a management consultant. They originally planned a FORTUNE-style magazine for French business, but Réaltiés' scope was soon broadened under Editor Max, 41. A onetime French wire service correspondent, Max studied U.S. publishing methods while living in the U.S., where...
...Economics Professor D. GALE JOHNSON, after a five-week tour of Russian farms, in the NEW YORK TIMES Magazine : is no question that the JL changes in agricultural policy since 1953 have increased farm incomes. But compared to the American farmer the rewards received by the Russian peasant are meager indeed. The Russian peasant has his small, modest house and sufficient food to eat - and that is about all. If any of the members of a farm village [owns] a car, this fact [is] pointed to with pride...
Like many race myths, the legend of Arjuna clothes a simple economic fact: in the upland valleys, existence depends upon a limited number of tiny terraced fields and the careful balancing of population against food reserves. Each family avoids dividing its meager tillage in ever-diminishing lots among its progeny by having the younger sons share the wife of the eldest son. Not only does this practice reduce the number of children in each generation, and keep each property permanently within the family, but it has some other curious results. Polyandry, for some reason not wholly accounted for by anthropologists...