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...become a badge of honor, like riding the steepest roller coaster in the amusement park. "I've been in this business 47 years, and I've never seen anything like it," asserted Los Angeles Theater Manager Harry Francis. He estimates that each performance exacts an audience toll of four blackouts, half-a-dozen bouts of vomiting and multiple spontaneous exits...
...appears unmoved by the financial toll that the strike is taking of his company. A nationwide boycott of Farah products, backed by the AFL-CIO and strongly endorsed by the bishop of El Paso, the Most Rev. Sidney M. Metzger, has bitten deeply into sales, despite a high-priced TV advertising campaign featuring athletes wearing Farah pants...
Inexperience took its toll at numbers six and eight, where Bill Kaplan and Jim McDonald lost in straight games. Kaplan is a freshman, while McDonald has only been playing for three years...
...third sobering fact is that the weekend that the Tigers took the back-to-back 10-1 losses to Harvard and Dartmouth, Princeton was racked with injuries that took their toll on five starters. The squad should be at full strength and psyched for an upset over Harvard tonight...
...saved the firm in 1946 by retiring the aging, respected founder and then pirating two brilliant school chums from a rival firm. Backed by a good name and private fortune, Beeky earns his keep by representing rich members of his family. But as death and inheritance taxes take their toll, he eventually accepts his own obsolescence...