Word: wallets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfulfilled, and, in a last-minute drive to catch up with wayward pledge-makers, the Council has offered an easy out--contributions from University coupon books. Lack of ready cash is no longer an adequate plea. The Council's Service Fund relieves everyone from the irk-some chore of wallet-reaching or door-slamming before an endless chain of charity canvassers; it seems only just that everyone should have a share in making this relief a reality...
...Skin a Cat. In Waukegan, Ill., flattered John Stebley, 67, accepted an invitation to join some boys in a football game, survived a pretty rough scrimmage, made it to a bar, discovered his wallet was gone...
Small World. In Milan, Italy, Pickpocket Paulo Gaudenzi got off a streetcar after stealing a wallet, took one quick look at his loot, chased the car, jumped on, thrashed his victim. In the wallet : a photo of Paulo's wife, inscribed: "To the world's most thrilling lover...
Perhaps not since the time of the Renaissance Popes has a group of artists found a patron so quick with a wallet, so slow with unsolicited directions and advice. Rank usually asks his producers only two questions: 1) What do you want to do? 2) How much will it cost? If he likes the answer to the first, he generally does not quibble with the answer to the second (though in recent months he has been conducting a drive to cut costs without, he says, cutting quality...
Great Playthings. Little gold ducks waddled after pearls in unending alternation, to make a necklace handsome enough for a 5th Century princess. Ivory saints beckoned from panels small enough to put in a wallet. Rams and lions from ancient Antioch displayed their gold and silver manes in 5th Century mosaics. There was a polished statuette of Astarte, the pagan goddess of fertility, whose memory died hard among the Christian farmers of Northern Syria. Bronze oil lamps, surmounted by leaping lions and the hooked beaks of griffins, stood dry and wickless under glass. Once the lamps had flickered, fiercely golden...