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Herbert once wrote a check on a brandy bottle, stamped it and sent it to be cashed at his bank. The idea was to show what nonsense banks and checks are. And also, how difficult it is to make any law that cannot be turned to nonsense. The English banker...
Like Rumpelstiltskin, who stamped his foot into the ground and tore himself in two, the Administration last week was ripping itself up the middle. It split over the question of whether Congress should pass a new Fair Trade law permitting manufacturers to force all retailers to observe their minimum prices...
In the spring of 1945, the FBI had its lines all set for Philip Jaffe, the editor of the pro-Communist magazine Amerasia, and was about to arrest him. Then one day, John Stewart Service, a lean-jawed, young State Department foreign service officer just back from China, walked into...
After some speeches by prominent Boston retailers, the girls lined up for diplomas, which had "Academic Moderne" stamped in gold on the covers. When the school son had been sung, the exercises were over and the members of the class of December, 1951, were officially "finished."
In the Apollo room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Va., a group of students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have...