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...Crowell-Collier that ballooned sales from $29 million to $220 million in a decade, made the financial arrangements for the transition of the Sunday supplement from the defunct New York Herald Tribune into New York magazine. Well known as an art patron, his own collection ranged from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to avant-garde moderns; one of his latest projects was the construction of a 1,680-ft. stone maze ("a symbol in a world that doesn't know where it's going") on his Arkville, N.Y., estate. Married and divorced at an early age, Erpf waited until...
...Quad will have to be architecturally brought up to snuff . . . . It's just not fair to send Harvard men up there." - Jerome Kagan, professor of Development Psychology, talking about the condition of Radcliffe dorms during a discussion of coed housing...
...levels. Each act thus has an interesting microcosmic quality, since it is played out on a small, elevated stage. As an act ends the light breaks off suddenly, creating an effect of structured progression when action is renewed on a different platform. Lighting and sound are all up to snuff...
...horse, dope, junk, stuff?it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...
Kagan pointed out that long-term co-residential living at the University will become a financial problem because "the Quad will have to be architecturally brought up to snuff." He cited the lack of suites and common rooms in the Radeliffe dorms and said, "It's just not fair to send Harvard men up there...