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Financialy Solvent...
...first time in a long time, the School of Design is financially solvent. By increasing the tuition from $600 to $800, Sert has eliminated a $10,000 deficit, and by securing financial support from Bundy, he has paved the way to a much more complete curriculum...
...fabulous Henri Christophe made himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy and built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...
Finances have always figured prominently in Lampoon affairs, however, especially since its present home was built. Efforts to make the magazine more solvent included the renting of shops on its Plympton Street side. One of the most famous of these was a basement restaurant called "John's Petit Lunch." Even as early as 1916, John P. Marquand wrote in an article for the Transcript: "The Lampoon has come into almost more than its own. That is, it is still paying for its building on the installment plan...
...Solvent but disillusioned, Chanel quit. But was she finished? Last week all fashion-conscious Paris was asking this question as it trooped once again to Rue Cambon for 71-year-old Coco Chanel's first fashion show in 15 years. There was more than a show of feline claws as the fat cats of the fashion world crowded in among the models like subway riders in a rush hour. Some fashion writers found Coco's long-skirted, severely tailored designs "tacky." A plain navy suit was modeled, wrote one, "by a brunette mannequin who was with Chanel...