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...University of Texas-carrot-topped junior, David ("Skippy") Browning, 21, first-or second-place taker in every national springboard (3-meter) diving meet since 1948, a perfectionist who showed almost splashless style last week in piling up his winning 1,037.45 points...
...progress from Paris to the Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with romantic anecdotes of beautiful American heiresses, great dukes and greater maharajahs, heartbroken...
...first month I was paid $3.50 a week. From this, I developed a strong feeling for the underdog and the less well-to-do." Kirtley F. Mather has never forgotten these early years in Chicago. "Perhaps the thing that influenced me the most was my experience as a census taker in Cook Country. I worked in a district known as 'Irondale' where most of the people were recently-arrived foreigners. In one block there were over 400 people jammed on one side of the street; men worked in 12-hour shifts and the beds worked in 12-hour shifts...
JANUARY-Fare Enough. In Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran, who advertised that he would pay any prospective customer's transportation to his showroom, got a taker, shelled out $708 for a plane ticket from Sydney, Australia...
...Clair Bee, for instance, of Long Island University should have been on trial and actually indicted in the courtroom, along with the professional gambler as briber and student as taker of bribe. I do not single out Mr. Bee for any other reason than that his name is well known and stands as a symbol for all the college presidents involved. Had these college presidents been indicted, and with them their agents, the transmitters of the bribe, there would have been a thoroughly remarkable change in the behavior of college presidents. This change in behavior would have been...