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...minimum, Tokyo boasts 30,000 establishments where a man or woman can have a drink. Prostitutes used to be everywhere, but a 1958 antiprostitution law scattered them to the winds, except for those who reappeared' as "bar hostesses." In the Ginza, Akasaka, Shimbashi, Shinjuku and Asakusa districts, such swank bars and nightclubs as Le Rat Mort offer unusual entertainment at prices that can be as exorbitant as anywhere in the world...
...case in Round One last Fall, Radcliffe has been judged guilty by reason of proximity, although it seems agreed that resourceful Harvardians occasionally search other "Swank Eastern Girls Colleges" for their "bourbon and broads before badtime" activities...
...Club, according to O'Reilly, existed about a decade ago, and operated a swank and exotic brothel near the Square for the "scions of America's wealth-last and most socially prominent families...
...least three), and stockbrokers-with the brokers depicted as a shifty lot who spend their time peddling worthless securities to unsuspecting clients. The plot has something to do with a young speculator who arrives in Manhattan from Texas, buys the first taxicab he climbs into, snaps up a swank restaurant because his date likes to eat there, impulsively flies to Europe and hops right back with a grand collection of German expressionist art, finally shakes up the entire U.S. economy by promoting a more or less mythical company known as Universal Widget. Why? Why, because he is plumb crazy about...
...sales pitch can be successful everywhere. Copywriters for General Motors found out that "Body by Fisher" came out "Corpse by Fisher" in Flemish. "Schweppes Tonic Water" was speedily dehydrated to "Schweppes Tonica" in Italy, where "il water" idiomatically indicates a bathroom. In Brazil, one U.S. airline proudly advertised the swank "rendezvous lounges" on its jets, learned belatedly that rendezvous in Portuguese means a room hired for assignations. Africa is an account executive's nightmare. Native words acceptable in one town are obscenities 50 miles away, and that old advertising catchword "magic" has doubtful value; to Africans the word...