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...Last Roundup. Although Boyd takes a human delight in making a fast buck, his attitude toward the licensed products which made him most of the $800,000 (before taxes) he earned this year is one of really Hoppy-like restraint. He has refused to license bubble gum, sharp-pointed tops, and nine out of ten of the other products on which he has been asked to put his name, and has insisted on reasonable prices and good quality before giving his blessing to manufacturers...
...Dallas, Restaurant Owner Robert Sprinkle Pool predicted he would be swept into office again as a County Public Weigher on the slogan: "A false weight is an abomination to the Lord, but a just balance is His delight." Nobody disputed him -he had no rivals for the job, and it pays no salary...
Barcelona-born, black-eyed Victoria got her first nod of approval from University of Barcelona professors. She was the daughter of a campus caretaker, and to the delight of the students and the annoyance of the teachers, her childish singing could be heard in the classrooms. But the professors recognized her talent, urged her to study at Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo. She did, for three years, then quit to work by herself. In 1947, assured by admirers that she could walk away with the first prize in Geneva's International Contest, she tried, and won the unanimous...
Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...
Except at Princeton, which has eating clubs, and Harvard, which hasn't, fraternities are important to the social life of the Ivy League. At Dartmouth or Amherst or Williams membership in a fraternity can make, for many people, the difference between drudgery and delight...