Word: tens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This attitude, needless to say, is unfortunate. For, like Pogo and Andres Segovia, like Li'l Abner and Beet-hoven's Ninth, generosity is a fine and beautiful thing. What is ten dollars? Two long-play records, three first balcony seats, 700-odd cigarettes, two Elsie's meal tickets. If it were not for the awkward business of writing out a check and deciding whether or not to feel magnanimous, the whole charity affair would be quite painless...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
...offers his soft, crispy-crusted pizzas nightly to anyone within two miles who can foot the 35 cents delivery charge, and if you feel like paying 89 cents up for a ten-inch pie, it's worth...
Success in meeting the goal, which is $3,000 higher than last year's, will depend on the effectiveness of entry solicitors in contacting students and on the awareness of the student body that ten dollars is the gift expected and requested, Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the campaign, emphasized last night...
Richard Crystal '62, the other chairman, stressed that ten dollars is a reasonable annual contribution to charity. "Inflation makes the increased giving doubly necessary," Crystal said. He further compared the $15,000 goal at Harvard with the $40,000 contributed annually at Yale and the $28,000 at Princeton. The reason for their success, he stated, is general acceptance of the ten dollar gift...