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...only reason the Harrison Williamses don't live like princes," observed a Manhattan wag during 1929's golden bull market, "is that princes can't afford to live like the Harrison Williamses...
...Some college administrations look upon football as the tail which wags the dog," said Jordan. "Administrators don't realize that the tail can't wag the dog if the head controls the tail." We hope that through all this canine metaphysics, Jordan is trying to say that athletics must be kept in their proper place as a small part of college education, and not a business or a prestige item. It would be nice, though, if he would reaffirm this clearly every time he speaks on the subject, to prevent people from getting the wrong idea. Football policy...
...much international squabbling as its financing. It will presumably rest with a cumbersome combination of high commission, general assembly and council of ministers. If, as its backers hope, the European army is to be a strong first move towards unifying Europe politically, the tail will have to wag the dog mightily...
Diplomacy by Swoon "The latest diplomatic feint," said a U.N. wag last week, "is the dead faint." The trend was set by Iran's new Premier Mossadeq, who swoons whenever he gets really worked up during a political speech (TIME, May 21). Last week, Israel's U.N. Delegate Abba S. Eban, a good deal younger (36) than Iran's 70-year-old Premier and far more robust, followed the fashion: at the end of an hour-long speech before the Security Council, Eban blanched, staggered out of the Council chamber and keeled over in the corridor...
...actor, Walter Macken has demonstrated to U.S. playgoers in The King of Friday's Men (TIME, March 5) that he can trip the light fantastic tongue of Ireland as well as any man. Yet when he comes to write, the tongue seems to wag the man. Except for a few set pieces, e.g., a vivid description of a storm and some fine, clear passages of Irish speech, Rain on the Wind is a standing example of what happens when Erin goes blah...