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...Business of moviemaking can no longer afford to pamper its temperamental stars. This simple fact of Hollywood economics was made abundantly clear last week to Tenor Mario Lanza, Who rode to movie stardom on the success of the musical, The Great Caruso...
Self-Service Beauty. Manhattan working girls can now freshen up at the "Pamper House," near Rockefeller Center, before going on a date. For $1 a year, 25? a visit and dimes in slot machines, a tired secretary can take a shower, wash and curl her hair, manicure her nails, look at television...
Christie's attitude toward audiences on performance days, however, is stiff and strict: no one may enter the auditorium after the overture has begun; evening dress is a must, however embarrassing to midafternoon commuters. Says he: "I refuse to pamper them." One concession: a 90-minute interval after Act II for dinner in nearby dining halls, where hungry operagoers can order chicken, Scotch salmon or cold lobster, buy choice wines from London caterers...
...Casey Jones, relict of the famed engineer, sharp-eyed and spry at "over 80," rode up from Jackson, Tenn. to Chicago for a railroad fair, reminisced about Casey: "Laughing brown eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff...
...short of inspirational. These men have fully utilized the material provided by the Freshman Dean's office--material that includes all the information concerning the student that was available to the Board of Admissions, as well as placement grades and a confidential parental letter. These advisers do not necessarily pamper or subdue the individual. Rather do they help him to adapt his individuality to his college with a minimum of friction, a minimum of mistakes. They stand as interpreters of the University, not as mere representatives of its rule books. When a Freshman arrives full of eagerness to plunge into...