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...significant change in personnel was evident Monday as the Crimson went through a 50-minute workout in sweat clothes, then retired to Lamont for a scouting report on Saturday's game with Columbia...
...emphasis from Broadway show albums and the "easy-listening" music of Andre Kostelanetz and Mitch Miller to contemporary rock. Columbia already had Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and the Byrds under contract. Davis greatly expanded that list by adding such innovators as Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Santana, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Rock moved from 15% of Columbia's volume in early 1967 to more than 50% now. Last year Columbia's domestic division had sales of about $200 million, and pretax profits almost doubled, to $25 million...
Speeches and things: Speakers stand atop sound truck, and we all drip sweat. I write down every word I can get for the Post; don't feel like going through it again here. Spell speakers' names, with great difficulty, in French for woman from Montreal newspaper...
...since Tennessee Williams' no-necked Flynns from Memphis has there been such a terrible family of Irish-Americans as the Corrigans of Philadelphia-"a wealthy tribe of shanty Irish, they'd take the sweat from the poor dead Jesus." Principato, the beleaguered hero of this hilarious novel, finds out about the Corrigans the hard way by marrying Cynthia, the barge-footed only daughter of the clan. Battening off a string of funeral homes and ghetto bars, his in-laws scheme constantly within a parochial Jansenist world of indulgences and spiritual bouquets. For them, a family's social...
About thirty T-shirted freight men carried heavy packages from the side door of Saks Fifth Avenue into delivery trucks. I watched for a while as they sweated and swore, and finally I walked inside with a friend. My eyes went blurry for a second as my body had to change from a wet 85 degrees outside to an air-conditioned 70 degrees inside. "It's not so bad once you get used to it." my friend said. She explained that she used to work there ("That's the stock room we used to call the refuge from the glue...