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...already be the finest freestylers in the world-a fact to make swimming experts boggle at what the pair might do in the next few years, as they grow to adult swimmers' estate. Said Coach Talbot: "We're only in second gear. Just wait till we get into high...
...sweat and effort that Thackeray put into his work. "I can see him pointing now with his finger," wrote his daughter Anny, "to two or three little words. Sometimes he would show us a few lines & say, there that has been my days work. I have sat before it till I nearly cried & nothing would come...
...most popular man along Madison Avenue last week was a tough-talking executive named Edward T. Ragsdale, general manager of General Motors' Buick Motor Division. From morn till night, he was discussed, watched, wooed with every honeyed promise that resourceful admen could muster. Agencies besieged his Flint, Mich, office with telephone calls, then had their influential friends call, finally got their friends' friends to call. Reason for the furor: tucked away in Ragsdale's pocket was Buick's fat $24 million-a-year account, the industry's third largest automotive account (after Ford and Chevrolet...
...Past was a young cowpuncher who greeted Scrooge: "Howdy, pardner. I reckon you've been expecting me." For an idea that might have driven some viewers to Earp, it all went down quite smoothly, suggesting the not altogether happy possibility that A Christmas Carol may endure on TV till the cows come home. It also stirred some speculation about what the dickens the TV adapters may do next with the Yule classic. The time may be ripening for a modern-dress version, with Scrooge as a tough old union boss; a psychiatric adaptation ("These hallucinations of yours," says Scrooge...
...after 100 years, the trusses in 1891 turned over three-fourths of le snowballing fund (then $424,945) to Boston, which eventually used the money to endow the Franklin Technical Institute. But Franklin had also stipulated that whatever capital might be left should accumulate interest for another 100 years till 1991, when it would be divided between Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week, weary of sitting on a fortune that was doing nobody any good, the foundation's trustees filed a brief with the legislature, asked that they be allowed to use the money to extend...