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...Penn coed is an intriguing paradox. She is attractive and often intelligent, yet some Penn men will assert that it would be degrading to date one. This can probably be regarded as irrational and inconse-5Snack bar-lunch counter at Houston Hall where busy Pennmen and women grab a bite to eat while scurrying about...
...performances was more difficult. For the past generation the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has been handling such collections, the largest share of them in the form of flat annual fees from broadcasting stations, which nowadays amount to as much as $18 million a year. The bite was painful, and in 1939 broadcasters raised the cry of "monopoly" against ASCAP, got together and formed a rival agency, BMI. The two have been scrapping ever since, e.g., 33 ASCAP composers are now suing BMI for $150 million...
...large "wholesalers." Often on the run, often prey to mobsters muscling in on their business, the bookies have learned how to live on the shifting margins of the law. While bookmaking is illegal in all states except Nevada, federal law demands a 10% tax on all bets accepted. The bite is big enough to put any bookie out of business, for competition has driven the book's margin of profit-"vigorish" or "juice," as it is known to the trade-down to a modest 4.8% on football and basketball, only 2.4% on baseball. Bookies who go through the motions...
...general treatment for rattlesnake bite," wrote F. C. Wilkes, M.D., in a Manual of Practice for the Diseases of Texas, published in 1866, "consists in immediate and powerful stimulation. Whiskey, brandy, rum or any spirituous liquor should be freely given, so as to produce intoxication, if possible." No prescription was ever more popular in the West. Yet its efficacy has never been checked by medical research. Last week famed Venomologist Herbert L. Stahnke of Arizona State College announced that the imposingly named Committee on Problems of Alcohol, Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council of the National Academy...
...Bite of Austerity. In Dallas, Tim McNulty won a divorce and custody of his false teeth after he testified that his toothless wife appropriated the plates because they couldn't afford a second pair, repaid the loan by biting...