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...loafers and Dacron hose have retained their popularity. The most practical shoe is still the Cordovan with plain toe. Contrary to common belief, Cordovan is not a brand name, but refers to any shoe made of horse-hide, the toughest of leathers used in shoemaking...
...Detroit Edison, Du Pont, General Electric has already pushed prices to the point where the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average pay only 4.9% in dividends. As the blue chips grow too expensive, more and more pension money will go into new fields. Then businessmen will have to toe a fine line between their basic objective of protecting the workers' pensions and their responsibility to the U.S. economy as a whole...
When the Student Council tentatively voted last week to abolish the Senior Class Day Committee, it behaved much like the quack doctor who decided to cut off his patient's toe because of a sore toe. Recognizing the evil in the election procedure for the Permanent Class and Class Day Committees is meritable, but the Council should make a more thorough examination of the problem before its final decision tonight...
...objection to the scheme. Bizet wrote French romantic music that, as many critics feel, is hardly even suitable to its original Spanish subject. With back-country U.S. Negroes, it goes about as well as pink champagne at a hoedown. On top of this, Oscar Hammerstein II dipped his big toe in the Mississippi mud and wrote some lyrics that should be thrown back to the catfish. Fortunately, he also supplied a book that is considerably better than the original libretto, with a shift of the plot to Jacksonville, Fla., and into high colloquial gear...
...evening began slowly. A few in the audience made furtive toe-tappings through the opening medleys. They had learned in grammar school music appreciation classes that true music lovers don't keep time with their feet, but with their souls. By the time the band got to the Harvard medley, everyone was bound should and foot by the melodious blare, and was stomping away with joy and a new-found pride in an already favorite Harvard institution...