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Down at Yale, they make a big deal over charity. Like frisbee and Ivy Magazine, like snowball riots and football movies, giving is "shoe." At Harvard, if you can't afford to throw it away, you can't afford to give it away. Harvardmen being as self-conscious as they are, a gift of too much is as embarrassing as a gift of too little...
...plug system is so well organized that there are lists setting out which firms pay what-and it would not be possible if U.S. business did not eagerly go along. Many a performer jokes about the practice. Arthur Godfrey slipped in a mention of a popular brand of shoes and then conspicuously followed by specifying his own shoe size. On his NBC show, Interviewer Tex McCrary enjoyed displaying people who happened to be clients of his pressagentry firm...
Divorced. By Joan Cohn Karl, 45, widow of Cinemogul Harry Cohn: Shoe Magnate Harry Karl, 45; separated after 23 days of togetherness (her $110,000 settlement amounts to $4,782.61 a day); in Santa Monica, Calif...
Most characteristic of Bahian art were wrought-iron figures of the dread god Exú, pronounced eh-shoe (see color page). As with other Bahian folk figures, Exú suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...
...said Truman, "I want to dump a load of coal on you." He asked Symington to serve as head of the Surplus Property Board (later Surplus Property Administration), charged with setting policies for disposing of some $30 billion worth of Government property left over from the war, ranging from shoe polish, bayonets and bombers, to oil pipelines and complete aluminum plants. Symington sold his Emerson stock at a capital gain of around $1,000,000, took on what he calls "the roughest job I ever...