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...labor that they are reduced to stealing it from each other. In the U.S., most economists cite the baby boom as one of their reasons for business optimism: in the short run, the 4,400,000 infants to be born during 1960 mean $3 billion more in the till for manufacturers of baby food, clothing, furniture, toys, and accessories...
...says, considered him "a nasty little boy," and at 16 he almost killed another youngster in a fight, was expelled from school and took work as an office boy. Caught dipping into petty cash to bet on the horses, he got the sack, had to sleep in public parks till he heard of a gold strike in New Guinea. At 17, he set out to make his fortune, and for the next five years he lived by his remarkably quick wits in a wild and woolly part of the world. First off, he bluffed his way into the colonial service...
...give you till you're 30 to make it," Bosley's mother once said to him. When he was 30, she said "31" and the next year "32." This season, at 32, Tom Bosley made...
...till Poor Richard that Franklin hit his stride as a maker and collector of aphorisms; e.g., "After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy." "Men and Melons are hard to know," "There is no little enemy." Poor Richard, of course, is also chockablock with moralistic homilies. D. H. Lawrence once carped that Franklin "made himself a list of virtues, which he trotted inside like a gray nag in a paddock." Lawrence was not the first or the last to be infuriated by Franklin's middle-class prudence; yet Franklin's maxims-many...
...Although we are very sympathetic to the idea of opening the library till 11, the issue is a dead duck as far as the Administration is concerned," Miss Porritt emphasized...