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With his three-foot-high caricature half done, Scarfe moved to Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel where he applied the finishing touches, dressing the completed figure in a shirt and sports jacket lent by Galbraith. As he carried it into a crowded elevator on his way downstairs to a taxi, a little old lady tapped him on the shoulder and asked: "Is that John Galbraith?" "I was delighted," says Scarfe. "It was the first time anyone had seen...
...parietals one House Master maintained that the present parietals set-up was quite adequate for a natural relationship to develop. "It is natural," one student replied, "only if you assume that it is natural to have intercourse with a girl and then to have to stick her in a taxi...
...treaty to Chicago, and Hunt smuggled it through customs. Lewis negotiated for weeks to get the treaty, and pledged his word never to reveal the facts. We at the Tribune believe it was a Chinese diplomat who gave us his copy. The negotiations took place in a stalled taxi in the middle of the Place de la Concorde-this was Lewis' brilliant idea-the only place in the world safe from being overheard. The treaty was mysteriously dropped through the letter slot at the Tribune, wrapped in a piece of Chinese silk (some say a kimono). It would have...
Radcliffe girls dreading the walk to the Square tried vainly to call taxi companies, but overloaded phone wires as often as not refused to give even a dial tone. "Anyway," one Cliffie explained, "electricity freezes at five degrees...
...tough force and assertiveness that Jack Kennedy might, with his Boston accent, have called "vigah." Predictably, it has drawn its quota of quips, being labeled variously "the blockhouse," "an upside-down pagoda," and "the tomb of Cheops." But informal polls indicate that an increasing number of secretaries and taxi drivers are coming to like it. The architects hope that with time the city hall will accumulate the usual collection of flags and trophies. "It should bear the marks of the people who use it," says McKinnell. And Kallmann thinks that the building is ready for all the coming wear...