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Historian Samuel Eliot Morison ('08) discourses on Leavitt & Peirce cigarettes: "There were no cheap brands except Home Runs, Sweet Caps, and Richmond Straight Cut, which young gentlemen did not smoke. Egyptian Deities, which cost 25 cents for 10, were fashionable; but, owing to a rumor that Shevlin, the Yale football captain, collected a royalty on every package we boycotted them." Acceptable smokes of the day were Turkish Delight, Egyptian Prettiest, Pharaoh's Daughter (Sweet Caporal still survives...
...Senator Styles Bridges to put in a good word for Goldfine. Also present: Goldfine's old and great friend, Maine's Republican Senator Fred Payne. Payne has admitted receiving vicuna coats and hotel hospitality from Bernard Goldfine. And last week to a TIME reporter he confirmed a rumor that had received considerable currency around Washington: in 1952, Goldfine had advanced Payne $3,500 of the $5.000 needed for down payment on the purchase of Payne's $22,500 home in Hillcrest Heights, Md. The $3,500 came in the form of a loan: it has not been...
...thorough going-over. Privately Adams remembered how he and his wife Rachel, trying for a little balance in their relationship with the free-spending Goldfine, once gave Goldfine a gold watch and at other times some of Mrs. Adams' oil paintings. But newsmen were more interested in a rumor (it was true) that Goldfine bought the Adamses a $2,400 Oriental rug from Macy's, and had a tailor make Adams a vicuna coat worth at least $500 retail (wholesale cost to Goldfine: about...
...rumor that a wealthy K.U. alumnus put up $25,000 or more for Wilt's services may die off, now that he is quitting the campus, says Wilt hopefully. But other well-paid college stars will wonder at his disclaimers of a decent salary at Kansas. More than 200 colleges bid for the privilege of paying Wilt to study in their classrooms. If Kansas offered only the approved room, board, tuition and $15 a month for laundry, it is hard to see why a cash-conscious young man like Wilt chose a college so far from home...
...also customary to give a degree to some foreign statesman, and inside sources reveal that this year Pierre Pflimlin, who according to rumor will be "vacationing in the Bay State in early June," will be honored...