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...young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn...
...first time in history a University dramatic group will swap stages with actors from another school when the Harvard Theatre Workshop players journey to Princeton the first week in January for a three-day showing of Henry IV, Part...
...eyes," Gustavo recalls. "They were like tiger's eyes." Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under...
...Crimson grid fans who can pry themselves away from their radios this afternoon, there will be plenty of seats available at Soldiers Field when the Jayvees swap broadsides with the Fargo Building Navy Base eleven. Hostilities will commence at 2:30 o'clock at the enclosed Freshman practice field. There will be no admission charge...
Even the Texas Boy Scouts in Paris knew that it was no good for them to have horned toads unless the other boys had enough penknives to swap...