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...minute. For those who could not plunk down $100, a deferred-payment plan was provided: $10 down, installments of 5?. Incidental "love offerings" of $5 to $6 were gratefully received. Boys & girls belonged to "Cosmic Network, Inc.," contributed 1? stamps. Into "Secret Givers, Inc." (for men only; emblem: a stork carrying a baby) members paid from 50? to $1 a month...
...table in Manhattan's noisy Stork Club one night last week sat a tall, thin, aging man and his wife. A society photographer asked the couple whether they minded having their picture taken. "Not at all," said the thin man. "But it's the last picture you'll take, because tomorrow I'm going away for a long time...
...after his visit to the Stork Club last week, Jesse Livermore turned up for lunch in the bar of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Tense, distraught, he took a table by himself, spoke to no one, from time to time took out a little memorandum book and jotted while he ate his lunch. Then he left. At 4:30 that afternoon he was back again. He ordered two old-fashioneds, sipped them slowly. Suddenly he rose from his table and went into the lobby. Ten minutes later an attendant found him slumped in a chair in the ground-floor...
...Senior Class took a drink at least once a week. Boston and Cambridge have almost as many bars as colleges. Unfortunately, they close early--one on weekday nights, twelve on Saturdays. If you want to keep on drinking, you'll have to go to Charlestown to the Stork Club, or to Revere to the Open Door, where you pay proportionately more. In Cambridge, the rowdy Stag Club (no membership dues) stays open an hour beyond the legal limit...
...sprite and very juvenile Puck of a few years back, pitching in a parked car with some uncomfortably adolescent bit of fluff. Well, just imagine how much more horrible it would be to see a slinky Shirley sipping her Mumms Extra Dry under the subdued lights of the Stork or the Ritz...