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...Finally . . . TIME, if it chooses, can believe the AEC's story of wastebasket recovery. I don't believe...
...this is the increased difficulty among the Faculty and Graduate School of conducting a person-to-person canvass. Six thousand letters have been sent out to faculty members and nonresident graduate students, but something about it makes an impersonal letter far too easy to slip quietly into the nearest wastebasket. Admittedly some of these letters went out late, and admittedly graduate students are on the average poorer per capita than undergraduates. But for the full professors and associate professors, who can certainly afford a reasonable contribution, any excuse is indeed small. The drive includes the entire University with the single...
Brown-eyed Edna Chase, mother of Actress-Author (In Bed We Cry) Ilka, has edited Vogue ever since 1914, five years after the late Conde Nast bought it. In & out of her chartreuse-and-beige office, she is a hard-to-please autocrat ("my wastebasket is my strongest ally"). Her philosophy is frankly snobbish: "We are reflecting the way of life of people with wealth and taste and social position." To help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts...
...Perkins has done many an odd chore. He has cleaned out elephant skulls and put them on exhibition, and removed the scent glands from skunks. In April, along with two Chicago newsmen, he hunted eels by flashlight in the open sewers of a southern Louisiana town. His wastebasket is the hollowed-out foot of an unmanageable elephant that was shot at the St. Louis...
...radio ever gets a Pulitzer Prize," he once said, "it will be pinned to the censor's wastebasket...