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...virility of Critic Kenneth Tynan. Agreeing that Buckley had used his text once too often (his fee was $1,000 for the same lecture in Chicago, another $3,500 from Playboy}, the speech-sponsoring Carolina Forum withheld Buckley's $450 stipend until a more realistic secondhand price was negotiated...
This is a picture comforting to any German male-but these days he is likely to find it only in an old movie. In fact, the traditional hausfrau is no more. Today's West German housewife, says Family Minister Franz-Joseph Wuermeling with a shudder, "prefers a secondhand Volkswagen to a second child...
Newsboy was so penurious that he would dun a debtor for a few pennies, but his attachment to cash frequently led to his losing it. The cops sometimes found money in the secondhand cars that Newsboy kept stashed around the city-and invariably Newsboy had to disclaim ownership of the money to avoid explaining where it came from. Once he turned up at a hospital bleeding from stab wounds, and the police discovered $3,000 in his car. Said Newsboy: "I never saw it before." Again, he was picked up on the street near an auto that yielded...
...early '50s, they bought the old Musical Arts Building (here Miss Bess Morse once operated an "expression school," where Tennessee Williams and William Inge put on some of their first plays) and opened up a colorful saloon called the Gaslight. The neighborhood then was a collection of seedy secondhand stores and a community of couldn't-care-less flat dwellers. Following the Mutrux brothers was self-styled "Environmental Engineer" Jimmy Massucci, who opened up another saloon, the Golden Eagle, near by; then Jay Landesman, whose Crystal Palace theater was operating farther downtown, decided to move his establishment into...
...quality of a college is no more scrutable than a new wife or a secondhand car, but consumers' research helps. Last week students at Trinity College (1,000 men) in Hartford. Conn., put out an exhaustive critique on the school, from architecture to public relations and professorial performance. They politely concluded that Episcopalian-founded (1823) Trinity is "one of the finest schools in the nation." But to "improve further,'' Trinity is in urgent need of correcting...