Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King alone drinks champagne, and a flunky keeps his cup filled all day. When the spirit moves him, his majesty throws largess in the form of coconuts; Louis has stocked more than 2,000 of them. Waiting for him on a reviewing stand in front of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled...
...operating room: the walls cold and white, the temperature a chilly 45°. The way the experts played it, squash racquets was a test of tactics and attrition. With slim-throated, roundheaded racquets, they slammed a little black ball around the wooden-walled court. The trick was to stand in midcourt (from which most defensive shots could be readily reached) and run the other fellow's legs...
Barnard College for women, the poor, proud relation of Columbia University (endowment: $75 million) was out to improve its financial lot. Barnard, whose red brick buildings of institutional classic stand along Manhattan's upper Broadway, only a stone's throw from Columbia's city campus, has an academic reputation which only such women's colleges as Vassar, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr can equal, and a faculty (borrowing from Columbia's) that most others cannot. But last year, asking no more tuition ($700) than most other top schools, Barnard (endowment: $5,000,000) operated...
With a faint, embarrassed smile, Eccles walked back to the stand. A.P.'s attorneys tried to lay the complaint to Eccles' "personal bias and prejudice." Eccles conceded that, through the Eccles Investment Co., his family owns 44% of the stock of First Security Corp. of Ogden (Utah), which advertises itself as "the largest banking institution in the intermountain states." But he insisted that that had nothing to do with his fear that Transamerica was a monopoly...
Last week, in FRB's Washington hearing room, Giannini and Eccles met face to face. In the first use of its antitrust powers in 34 years, FRB was out to prove Transamerica a monopoly. To the witness stand went Eccles. He had disqualified himself as a judge in the case, only to find that as far as Giannini was concerned, it was Eccles who was on trial...