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Warning to all undergraduates studying for exams: do not read the latest issue of the sometimes-monthly "Harvard Lampoon." It will break into the sober, solemn atmosphere of studiousness; it will spoil the gloomy mood surrounding faded and illegible lecture notes; in short, it will make you laugh...
Author Caldwell never revises or rereads a line she writes. She does no research ("it would spoil the fun"), picks up her general information about tycoons and industry from "movies and . . . plants I visited." In more difficult business problems-"for instance, when one man must do something to injure the other"-she consults her husband, who studied law. Mr. Reback, whom his wife calls "Tootsie," is a reader of the Wall Street Journal, and "he puts it all in a paragraph. Often I don't in the least understand what it means, but I break up that paragraph...
Some Vermonters agree that Ayres's ideas might do the state some good. To help make syrup uniform, Ayres invented a combination thermometer-hydrometer. If the syrup is too thin, it will spoil; if too thick, sugar crystallizes. But farmers were more impressed by the way Ayres got around the low OPA price last season. Ayres mixed maple sugar with pecans, sold the confection by mail at a rate of about $15 a gallon...
...revamped tribe of Dartmouth Indians will do its inhospitable best tonight to spoil the Varsity basketball team's annual hegira to the hills of Hanover, where the teams meet in an Ivy League contest...
...very first book. Title: Koussevitzky. Author: ex-Boston Music Critic Moses Smith. The maestro sued to stop publication. The book, he complained, "describes me as ... incompetent . . . brutal ... a poseur . . . attacks my integrity . . . impugns my loyalty and slanders a lifetime of work." Besides, complained the maestro, it might spoil the sale of a literary project of his own: the Koussevitzky autobiography...