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...that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs him on to further embroideries on how he killed his wicked old father. Then father appears...
...founded by a B.A. (Cantab.) named John Harvard; few could guess that Cambridge is the alma mater of Bacon, Byron, Darwin, Erasmus, Milton, Newton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole and Wordsworth. Strong in classics and "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), Oxford has dominated Whitehall and Westminster. But now England has a surfeit of politicians and debaters. It needs more scientists and engineers, and so it needs Cambridge...
...Surfeit of Money. Du Pont hopes that the Government will look favorably on proposed legislation that would either 1) postpone taxes on distributed G.M. shares until the shares are sold, when only a capital gains tax would be paid, or 2) enable stockholders to pay income tax only on the average $2.09 a share that Du Pont paid for G.M. stock, and capital gains tax on whatever profit they might make when they sold. If Congress turns these proposals down, Greenewalt leans toward Du Pont's selling the stock itself through an underwriter, so as to be able...
...running just when some Angelenos were talking up their town as the site for a 1966 fair. A supersalesman who ran the U.S.'s highly successful 1959 exhibition in Moscow and lured the Dodgers away from Brooklyn, McClellan was driven into an unfamiliar downgrading role by a surfeit of success. "Los Angeles," he says, "is currently drawing more people than can easily be absorbed." To pay its share of the $65 million World's Fair cost, Los Angeles would also have to hike its already "staggering burden" of taxes, a price that McClellan does not feel would...
...Protestantism suffering from a surfeit of crapehangers ? The Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell, 68, of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes so. Mounting the pulpit last week, he sounded off against the "handwringing, breast-beating and doleful prophecies about the future of Protestantism" from the very churchmen on whom its future depends...