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Lewis and Dean Martin are Sy's prime customers. Jerry orders about $75,000 worth of clothes a year. He says he is allergic to dry-cleaning solvent, so he wears a suit three times and gives it away to needy performers. Years ago, Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Curtis used to walk around in Sy Devore suits that were hand-me-downs from Lewis. When Martin and Lewis split up, everyone in Hollywood was saying, "Who gets custody of Sy Devore...
...late '50s, a rising nightclub comedian was wise to be sick if he wanted to be solvent. Monied mirth was found in plane crashes, terminal diseases, physical handicaps, capital punishment. Then Bob Newhart cleared the atmosphere. His monologues, softly twanged and delivered at leisure, drew laughter that wasn't full of marsh...
...compared with that of thousands of other organic compounds, the pattern of Krebiozen was found to match that of creatine. Ironically, Krebiozen is much easier to produce than Dr. Durovic may realize; he uses benzene, in which creatine is highly insoluble, for extraction. Using plain water as a solvent for the process, he might get several hundred times more amino acid derivative from each horse...
...cost of medical care. Outraged by this situation, she organized local teachers into a group insurance plan with Baylor University Hospital. The plan, under the name Blue Cross, quickly spread to other parts of the country. During the Depression hospital administrators pushed Blue Cross to keep their institutions solvent when private charity declined with the stock market...
Berger's lever was the U.S.'s annual $500 million aid program to South Korea, without which Park's government could not remain solvent. To a steady stream of top Korean officials who came to the four-story U.S. embassy in downtown Seoul, Berger explained that the U.S. might have to re-examine its aid program unless Park let the civilians come back. To show that Berger was not bluffing, the U.S. recently delayed a promised $25 million desperately needed by South Korea to pay for import purchases...