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Compiling a list of the most influential people in America, besides being a provocative parlor game, provides a chance to mull over the ideas and visions, tastes and beliefs that affect our lives. Being influential is the reward of successful salesmanship, the validation of personal passion, the visible sign of individual merit. It is power without coercion, celebrity with substance...
...only nine years old when he builds a display that makes the 5' cigars in his father's tobacco shop look more expensive. As a teenage bellhop, he boosts sales at a hotel concession. In 1894 at the age of 22, he opens the Metropolitan Lunchroom and Billiard Parlor, a winning concept that is expanded northward into the newly developing acreage bordering Central Park...
...Vanke understood the difference between "libel"--which he accused us of perpetuating against him in his letter of April 6--and a candid process of free speech. We trust that by now Jeffrey Vanke has learned that "dialogue" need not be limited to the intellectual equivalent of the tea parlor. Foreclosing dialogue is not our game, Mr. Vanke, and not one white member of the Harvard community who has interacted with either of us regarding America's tragic racial-caste and Negrophobic legacy will support Mr. Vanke's anti-dialogue charge against...
...stretching a million dollars into twenty annual payments of $50,000. They also offer much better odds: If bookmakers gave 13 million-to-one-odds, they would never take any bets at all; the only reason the government can get away with this is that it is the only parlor that can accept bets legally...
...Primary Colors, which this week tops the fiction list. In the continuing parlor game of who wrote it, Newsweek's Joe Klein is now so hot that his weekly oeuvre is getting deconstructed a la Jacques Derrida. Klein is a good guy, author (maybe), even though he doesn't bring a camera on trips--only dorks do that--but expects you to take his picture on a camel and get two-for-one prints made...