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...drew their power from the sea. Time was when Wapshot boys got their baptism of life by sailing round the Horn, their baptism of sex on some Pacific island. Now the shipbuilding yards are silent and old Leander, head of the family, is reduced to ferrying trippers in a worn-out tub of a boat. His world is gone and frequently he has to take refuge in dreams of his lustier youth, but Leander still sails the old Topaze like a Viking, still values a pretty woman in the way she likes to be valued. The Wapshot Chronicle...
...life a member of Actors Equity) slips into a white smock, faces the camera, and the biggest gasoline-torch medicine show in history has begun. A cigarette is soothing to the T-Zone. A miracle pill will start the natural flow of liver bile. Try a certain elixir for worn-out blood-and a toothpaste for a brave new cavity-free world...
...people's academicism. He can ham up a game of charades, dance smoothly, charm a pretty girl. He is also one of the most artful dodgers of a restaurant check in public life, affects a studied carelessness about his appearance. The famous 1952 photo of Stevenson's worn-out shoe sole was no contrivance; neither was the pair of eyeglasses he carried last spring−they had been mended with a brass safety...
Thus, Barzun warns, those who continue to grumble at America are merely singing a worn-out tune. "They forget that the true creator's role, even in its bitterest attack, is to make us understand or endure life better. Our intellectuals do neither when they entice us to more self-contempt...
Replacement costs alone are high. This year, for example, it will cost U.S. Steel $64 million to replace a worn-out open-hearth furnace built in 1930 at a cost of $10 million. It took sales of $600 million, one-seventh of U.S. Steel's total, says Chairman Blough. to earn enough profit after taxes to pay for the furnace. To pay for expansion in the next five years, U.S. Steel will reinvest earnings of $220 million annually, the profit on about 56% of its sales, will use another $140 million from cash set aside for depreciation...