Word: thrift
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...booking at the Bon Soir, the Copacabana of West Eighth Street. Barbra by then had developed an enduring fondness for other people's castaway clothes, particularly if the other people had cast them away at least 30 years before. These come cheap in Manhattan's thrift shops. When she first walked into the Bon Soir, she was wearing a $4 black dress, a $2 Persian vest, and old white satin 500 shoes with large silver buckles...
Away from the piano, her life is even richer. She is founder and proprietor of a foundation for the rehabilitation of down-and-out jazzmen, and she runs a Manhattan thrift shop for the foundation's benefit. Musicians who are doing well drop by with contributions nearly every day, and turning the merchandise into cash can sometimes tax even the devotion of Mary Lou. Only recently, Louis Armstrong's wife donated 100 pairs of size 41 shoes; the Duke donated a hand-painted pool stick and a mink...
...billion or over? Well, he really couldn't tell yet. He had inherited a $98.8 billion budget from President Kennedy, and there were lots of new, unavoidable cost increases. "But we are going to keep that increase the lowest possible level, first, because we believe in frugality and thrift, and second, because we hope that we won't send to Congress a budget that will require severe and drastic reductions by the Congress. We think that they are overworked now, and we don't want...
...Rush? In some quarters, however, the press reception was qualified. The Chicago Tribune looked skeptically on Johnson's promise to spend prudently. "Are these the visible signs of thrift and frugality?" asked the Tribune, as it ticked off Johnson's pledged recommitment to space exploration, foreign aid, aid to education, medicare and other federal programs with high price tags. In North Carolina, the Greensboro Daily News counseled Congress and the nation not to be stampeded into precipitate action. "Few Americans (and, we imagine, still fewer Congressmen) will feel that even the late President's martyrdom imposes...
...Gillette Co.: "Johnson will get quicker action on some of President Kennedy's bills, and we don't consider any of those harmful." Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller was "delighted to hear an endorsement of the tax cut, and pleased with the endorsement of thrift and frugality...