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...shall never forget that late afternoon as the dying November sun sunk over the gabled rooftops and two young men, inconspicuously alike, came to call on me. Their names were Jonathan Fairfax III '59 of Boston and the Fly Club and Simon Cohen '59 of Scarsdale, New York, and the Minority Rights Club. Casting aside their fraternal affiliations and in the democratic spirit that made Al Smith an American reality, the two gentlemen said that were soliciting for contributions to the Harry T. Levin Ping-Pong Ball endowment, which, as is well known by now, ensures that no Harvardman need...
...Handed down by a federal grand jury in New York City: a five-count indictment, four counts charging Philippe with evading a whopping $88,706 in income taxes in the years 1952-55, one charging that he knowingly concealed the receipt of "cash, currency or kickbacks" from Waldorf suppliers. Sunk in a continental sulk, Philippe issued a printed declaration of probity ("At the trial I confidently expect to establish my innocence "), then left for his $500,000 country estate near Peekskill-there to ponder, perhaps, the outrageous ways of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which, in his case at least...
Imposed Blessing. For centuries the inhabitants of Ichijo, like the vast majority of Japanese peasants, have lived in tiny wood-and-wattle cottages heated only by a fire pit sunk in the earthen floor. In years when the rice crop was good, Ichijo's farmers eked out a bare existence. When the crop failed, they sold their daughters to the city brothels. Steeped in this tradition, one of Ichijo's wrinkled, kimono-clad elders reflected with horror last week on Mrs. Sato's latest acquisition. "Indecent extravagance," he moaned...
Johns Hopkins identified it 30 years ago as the Philistine city of Gath, home town of the giant Goliath who died when Slingshot Expert David sunk a stone in his forehead. The Israeli government named a nearby settlement Kiryat Gath (Gath-town), and settlers were proud of Gath's Biblical background, even though the city and Goliath had been anti-Israelite...
Sarah did indeed reign at court as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, Keeper of the Privy Purse. Soon, Arnie's entourage swarmed with Sarah's relations, including cousin Abigail Hill, a penniless gentlewoman who had sunk to the role of "dust broom" (as Sarah put it) to a titled lady. What happened next seems, as Author Kronenberger says, "too much in the flashy traditions of the theater to have happened in real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah...