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Mary of your readers thought that the front-page story on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's new tower was a bad joke, or a slur on the school, or both. True, the architect's sketch looked somewhat like the Timbuktu town hall or a crusaders' citadel along the Damacsus road, but the drawing was done by a respected Houston firm, which has planned a red brick veneer to harmonize with Cambridge style and sensibilities...
Swift saw the situation and answered reassuringly in a soft urban fog made more casual by the experienced slur of a 55-year-old. "Is it a lead pencil or a mechanical pencil?" he asked. At least 3,000 tons of worry visibly lifted from the ad man's forehead. "Is it round or hexagonal?" Swift went on gently. "Does it have an eraser?" He got the job. And what did the pencil finally sound like? "Literate," recalls Swift, "-and thin...
...Slurs & Accolades. It is a Society to which the Kennedys have given considerable impetus, although it was in the making well before Jack went to the White House. Rockbound in their huge old houses behind the iron gates, the Old Guard seldom went anywhere, never saw anybody but one another, and hardly ever worked except as trust officers for the family estate. In the New Society, the term self-made man is not a slur but an accolade, and the New Society is willing to accept anyone with the requisite qualifications...
...Agriculture Secretary Freeman is the sort of fellow who lives what he preaches. Every couple of hours he pours himself a big snort of milk -to soothe his spastic colon and, incidentally, to dramatize the benefits of dairy products. When he gets tired, Freeman's speech begins to slur-the lingering effect of a facial wound he suffered as a Marine captain on Bougainville. Doctors doubted that he would ever talk again, but he developed into a bull-voiced orator...
...after he was sprung from jail on $100,000 bail, pending appeal of a 15-year tax-dodging rap, California Gambling Ganglord Mickey Cohen, 50, was accused of clobbering a Teamsters' picket with his own signboard. The donnybrook, which the short-fused mobster attributed to an anti-Semitic slur, was blamed by his foe on Cohen's unprovoked truculence (sample printable quote: "I own this local, and you are out"). This time Mickey only had to drop a niggling $1,050 bond to return to the suburban Van Nuys bungalow he shares with Showgirl Sandy Hagan...