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Origin of Specious. In London, in the name of the staid Lord's Day Observance Society, hoaxers sent out calendars with pictures of sketchily clad young women and a verse under the January pinup...
...founded in Cleveland in 1873. One of the early service magazines, it was loaded with helpful hints and departments ranging from Mother's Corner to Flowers, Care and Culture. Companion also carried serials by such women writers as Edna Ferber and Willa Gather. In recent years the staid Companion had lost ground to such rivals as Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and McCall...
Traditionally, the Victorians weren't a breed of doubters. They tended to be set in their ways, of moderate ambition, of staid habit. It's not often that we can see what happened to them when they practised excess, and we must be thankful to James Merrill's The Immortal Husband for the instruction. We must also thank him for a highly original and vastly entertaining play...
...some reason the Lampoon thought David L. Ratner '52, the rather staid editorial chairman, had stolen its bird, so they kidnapped him and took him to an abandoned house in Ipswich. They took his clothes from him for a night, then gave them back and lashed him to a pot-bellied stove for a group picture. Shortly thereafter, Ratner escaped, and the 'Poon soon recaptured its bird...
Shortly after writing his thesis, Financier Meredith got a chance to prove his case. He joined Vermont's staid old (108 years) National Life Insurance Co., pioneered so many fields for investment that National Life has wielded an influence far beyond its $620 million assets. Last week Meredith, now 51, and National Life's executive vice president, got another selling job. He became president of the New England Council, a post previously held by such eminent New Englanders as former Boston Federal Reserve President Laurence F. Whittemore and Senator Ralph E. Flanders. His task: to bind together...