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...There were finely fashioned items of Chinese jade, Chelsea porcelain, Battersea enamel, Neapolitan piqué (tortoise shell or ivory inlaid with gold or silver), case after case of tiny, exquisite baubles, splendid examples of the jeweler's and goldsmith's art. Of small boxes alone -for snuff, beauty patches, or just for decoration-there were 550, plus 120 etuis, 150 scent flasks, 50 portrait miniatures and 50 small clocks and watches...
Away from the public's eye the college's social life is closely tied with that of Boston, so closely in fact that undergraduates find that the big city's night clubs, theatres, and restaurants are only a subway token away when the college entertainment isn't up to snuff. The effect of this metropolitan competition is to improve the quality of the college productions and give them an air of professionalism which a small college show in a small community never achieves...
Born. To Marguerite Piazza, thirtyish, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano turned TV songstress, and her third husband, William James Condon, 43, Memphis snuff-company executive: their first child (her third), a daughter. Name: Shirley. Weight...
Amenity Missing. In Gadsden, Ala., Farmer Miles Johnson explained to the judge why he did not send his two children, aged nine and eleven, to school: they both take snuff, and there is no place in the classroom to spit...
...thing as long-range military security without economic stability, they put a high priority on sound money. Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who left the chairmanship of Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. to take command in that sector, figured that the best way to protect the dollar was to snuff out the last traces of inflation. His methods: 1) pushing interest rates upward, and 2) spreading the $270 billion national debt, concentrated 75% in securities coming due within five years, into longer-term maturities in order to take money out of circulation...