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...Enquirer with a confident proposal to find and trim several hundred thousand dollars worth of waste effort. The prospect was warmly welcomed by Charles Staab, 60, the Enquirer's executive vice president and business manager, and something of a fat trimmer himself: eight years of Staab-inspired wow (for "Wipe Out Waste") campaigns have, among other-things, reduced the mail-room staff by introducing automation...
...Wow-Wow. Material came from home too. When Ethel Merman sang the funny patter song By the Mississine-wah in 1943's Something for the Boys, she was singing about the river that flowed through the 750-acre property in rural Indiana, where Cole Porter was raised. His father was an Indiana fruitgrower, and his grandfather was a coal and timber baron worth $50 million. As a boy, Porter was a prodigy who was writing songs before he was ten. When he got to Yale (class of 1913), he immortalized the college mascot; Yalemen will remember him forever...
More and more, the food in U.S. restaurants seems to be going to the dogs -going there in paper sacks called Bowser Bags and Bow-Wow Bags...
...GEORGE ROMNEY was a wow on the convention rostrum but is a most unhappy soul in the Goldwater-dominated Republican Party; he plans to disassociate himself from Goldwater in his race for re-election as Governor of Michigan this year, and he could have a hard time winning. But if he does win while Barry loses, watch Romney...
...Derby, with Northern Dancer, owned by Canadian Beer Baron E. P. Taylor, and ridden by-guess who?-Willie Shoemaker. The richest Canadian-bred race horse in history, with $261,365 already in the till, Northern Dancer won this month's 1½-mile Florida Derby handily enough to wow the chart callers. But if Shoemaker never said it in so many words, he hinted that the 1½-mile Kentucky Derby might be more than Northern Dancer could handle. "I like Northern Dancer's gameness, and I think he had a little bit left...