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...table, some leaned suspiciously over their trays, "protecting" their rations with their arms. The men were "cultured and refined," the researchers reported, but soon they all unashamedly licked their dishes. As they got hungrier & hungrier, food became the chief subject of their conversation and their daydreams. They became fond of poring over cookbooks and hotel menus...
Rickard's death-and the depression-put the Garden into the red. Kilpatrick, a construction man, was picked to pull it out. Kilpatrick was fond of sports. At Yale ('11) he had been an All-America end as well as a Phi Beta Kappa. Kilpatrick cut out the mammoth free-ticket list, broke up the under-table deals with ticket speculators, put less stress on boxing, more on hockey (the Garden owns the cup-winning Rangers), the circus, ice shows and rodeos. By 1935 he hit the black with a profit of $179,568, has stayed there ever...
...agnostic days Joad used to be fond of saying: "When the mind becomes old and begins to decay, it becomes matted with God-webs." Joad's own mind grew God-webby as World War II grew more terrible. He began to doubt that evil was something that could be cured by socialism, progressive schools and psychoanalysis. He now says with a grin: "In that view, a world of adequately psychoanalyzed Communists would be the millennium...
...interests in banks and insurance companies. He made electric appliances and started a razor-blade factory. He brought powdered milk from Wisconsin, mixed it with water and sugar, and sold it as a milk for Mexican babies. By last year, when the black list expired, he had grown very fond of Mexico, and of his growing empire there...
After nightfall, Dr. Sasaki turns on the lights. The fish, which are very fond of light, think it's a party-or maybe a whole series of parties. They gather in swarms, cavorting around each light. When enough fish have gathered, Dr. Sasaki turns off the light nearest shore...