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Wealth v. Brains. At home, Silvio amused himself by decorating the gardens of his villa with a weird menagerie of statuary whose faces bore a startling resemblance to the stuffier citizens of Contrada. Nevertheless, most of the villagers were content to accept Don Silvio as a wealthy, if eccentric, benefactor...
...precise Yankee ways, Dr. White, now 66, is no man to be hidebound by conventions. So it was no surprise to his stuffier colleagues when his latest contribution to the New England Journal of Medicine was titled: "The Relation of Heart Size to the Time Intervals of the Heartbeat, with Particular Reference to the Elephant and the Whale." It included notes on the slow heartbeats and long electrocardiograph waves of nine circus elephants, and an account of Dr. White's whale hunt off Alaska last summer when he used harpoons as electrodes to get EKG readings of a wild...
...immediate changes in the State Department's personnel. But, he added, there was going to be a survey of the Department's structure. The slow-moving State Department quivered. Everyone who knew him knew two things about Jimmy Byrnes: 1) his dislike for professional diplomats of the stuffier stripe; 2) his liking for swift, direct action...
Last week Winston gave the press a nice little color story and a laugh on some of Britain's stuffier personages. He ordered the Civil Service to stop talking what he termed "officialese." Said he: "Let us have an end to such phrases as 'consideration should be given to the possibility of carrying into effect,' such terms as 'The receipt of your communication is hereby acknowledged with thanks.'" The Manchester Guardian promptly dubbed the Prime Minister "Jack the Jargon Killer...
...Stuffier Minneapolitans were always a little embarrassed by Mitropoulos' lack of dignity. But last week, as their symphony rounded out its season with an appeal for funds to balance the $250,000 annual budget, they thanked their stars for it. "Never mind my dignity," said Conductor Mitropoulos. "If necessary to continue the orchestra, I'll take the men to Seventh and Nicollet [heart of downtown Minneapolis] and play there and then pass...