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...membership is largely professional people who work in the city. And they go home to the suburbs at night. The Union used to be a club in the pure sense of the word. Now it's a businessmen's luncheon restaurant." A member of Chicago's swank Chicago Club feels that even more crucial to the club is the out-of-town migration of business and industry: "Who's going to come into the city during lunch hour...
...Tell Me."" One after another last week, they climbed bravely into the outdoor ring at The Pines, the swank borscht-and-bagels resort where Liston was training for his Sept. 25 bout with World Champion Floyd Patterson. One after another, they were helped out. "In the morning, Willie Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring...
...Paul's Macalester College is a Presbyterian-linked liberal arts school with 1,700 students, mostly from Minnesota. It has some pleasant distinctions: a 22-member bagpipe band in Macalester clan kilts, a 40-acre campus along swank Summit Avenue, where Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up. But none of this explains the school's greatest claim to fame. In number of National Merit Scholars, a status symbol among U.S. colleges, little Macalester is year after year among the top ten campuses in the nation...
...already begun to be tougher in dispensing aid, now insists that aid countries pass social and economic reforms before they enjoy U.S. largesse. When one nation asked for U.S. money for better housing in its capital city, U.S. aides found that it intended to build the housing in a swank section. The U.S. insisted that the nation would get no money unless it attacked the city's slums-and the poor in one section of the city are now getting new housing, plumbing and electricity. Says Hamilton: "Money and progress march along together. If our requirements aren...
...racing alone averages about $250,000 a year, and he has interests in a restaurant, a gas station, oil wells in Texas, and a 33,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona. He owns two Cadillacs, six tuxedos, 20 sports coats and 25 suits (all hand-tailored), lives in a swank Pasadena apartment. When he retires, Willie expects to expand his breeding operations: he already owns a stable of broodmares and a share in the stallion Round Table. But he is in no hurry to quit. "Retire?" asks Jockey Shoemaker. "Look at Arcaro and Longden. Why, I'd be ashamed...