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Bloody Fool. "I think I've been a bloody fool," admits Sir Hugh. He described the stock exchange report as fair and vowed to swear off roulette. But he has fought to stay on the company's board by threatening to put his 36% stock ownership up for sale if shareholders move against him. At parties, Fraser appears to be making a joke of the whole affair. He sang and danced two weeks ago at a gathering near his Scotland home in Drymen, Stirlingshire, and led guests in choruses of The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte...
Lyndon Johnson used to swear that when he caught cold the stock market automatically fell five points...
Beginning with what he calls the Hypocritic Oath ("I swear by Midas, my malpractice insurance, the A.M.A..."), Berman lets nary a branch of his calling escape his splenetic pen. To the vanishing, often bungling general practitioner, he says: "Good riddance." His definition of what he believes surgeons regard as a "reasonable" fee: "All that the traffic can bear." Psychiatry, he says, has lately been "lit by rare flashes of brilliance such as transactional analysis and fornication therapy." As for pediatricians, he asks: "What kind of intellect opts to spend the better part of its professional life with diaper rash...
...President reluctantly signed the legislation reviving the FEC's major powers and announced he was sending the names of his nominees to the Senate. On the day of the Michigan primary, Ford announced he was holding up $2 million in campaign subsidies for another week by refusing to swear in five standing members of the FEC until the Senate confirmed the sixth, the only Presidential appointment that differed from the original FEC members...
...best pianists alive today (along with Arthur Rubinstein), has come to appease the masses is that he is still very concerned (absurdly so, considering his status) with his popularity. He is, perhaps, overly sensitive about it. A negative review in The Boston Globe many years ago prompted Horowitz to swear he'd never return to Symphony Hall. Although there are practically riots at the box office every time his recital tickets go on sale, he insists that his manager take out full-page ads in Musical America, the promotional magazine featuring young and upcoming musicians who are relatively fresh faces...