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...closed corporation was created and George Webster, a well-known graduate of the Harvard Business School, was hired as business consultant. Howard Ruff, the San Francisco franchiser, invented the idea of simply-worded full page newspaper advertisements, and Reading Dynamics...
...Escalation" is one of those windy words that are foisted on the public by military bureaucrats, interminably parroted by the press and kept in the vernacular long after losing any real meaning. Though the word-let alone its antonym, de-escalation-appears in neither Webster's Second nor the Oxford English dictionary, it has become synonymous with the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam. More specifically, it has become a pejorative term encompassing any American increase in the level of fighting...
...plot runs away with the play. John Webster obviously felt that the quicker he piled on new complexities, the wilder the fans would be. The Devil's Law Case is twelve hours worth of Batman squeezed into...
Things used to be far worse. In 1833, no less a figure than Daniel Webster wrote the president of the Bank of the U.S. that if he wished the Senator's help against an attack on the bank, "it may be well to send the usual retainers." Big businessmen often "bought" themselves Senators by bribing the state legislatures, which at that time elected them, leading Mark Twain to remark: "I think I can say and say with pride that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than anywhere in the world...
Another renowned Harvard gambler was Vic Marma who invented a brand of poker known from Dartmouth to Princeton as Miami Marma. A.B., the Webster of Harvard poker, introduced a number of new terms including "K and L" --the game we all Know and Love (seven-card-stud-high-low), which is the type of poker most commonly played at Harvard...