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...proven more reliable sources of popular folklore than the discovery of great scientific laws, and so it befits the hyperseriousness of the apostles of this creed to spread the influence of their theories. Joining the tales of Archimedes jumping up and down in his bathtub yelling "Eureka" and a prim and patrician Isaac Newton cursing the apple that hit him on the head is the fable of three men in business suits having dinner at a posh Washington restaurant. Arthur B. Laffer, an upstart economics professor from California, Louis Lehrman, and Wall Street Journal editorialist Jude Wanniski were finishing their...
...Holiday, Sabrina, The Facts of Life and The Sting); in Los Angeles. Her first job for a studio was draping garlands over elephants in a Cecil B. De-Mille circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise-shell glasses, Head costumed actors for more than 1,000 movies and created some fashion trends, including a minor 1930s craze after she wrapped Dorothy Lamour in a sarong for Jungle Princess...
...then, 12,700 now). It was a town with five churches, four Republicans, one pool hall and one whorehouse. Helms was a gigantic (6 ft. 5 in.) man who, for a $25 weekly wage, served as both police chief and fire chief. He and Ethel had a prim clapboard house three doors down from the police station. Their second child was born on Oct. 18, 1921. They named him Jesse Alexander...
...solemn. The set, so old now that it is encrusted with dust, is dominated by an official-looking horseshoe-shaped desk, behind which are chairs for the staff and a giant backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made up for by Today's new weatherman, Willard Scott, 46, a good old Virginia boy who has a more engaging grin than anyone else...
...side sat Walesa, dressed in baggy coat and sweater, flanked by a coterie of advisers. Among them were a number of thoroughly nonproletarian, politically minded intellectuals who have been advising the strikers. Other leaders of the Interfactory Strike Committee sat on rows of benches behind their negotiators, including the prim and bespectacled Anna Walentynowicz, a militant crane operator whose recent dismissal had helped spark the shipyard strike...