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...spends many of his evenings talking shop - often at Toots Shor's, 51st Street restaurant in Manhattan. He is a movie, crossword puzzle and gin rummy addict, and hankers for the better eating places that specialize in bouillabaisse and oyster Rockefeller. He has also been known to fritter away a few dollars, between seasons, on the ponies...
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...various White House advisers might raise the tax to as much as 15% or 20%, might increase the employe's load more than the employer's. With this burden added to all his other taxes (see p. 16), the worker would have precious little money left to fritter away...
...thin civilian skin, the Jacksonville cadet finds his existence pretty comfortable. There are the six tennis courts, a swimming pool, a golf driving range, the Cadet club where tax-free Tom Collinses sell for 20?. Outside his hard-driven hours he has no responsibilities. With $75 a month to fritter away on weekends or payments on a car, he seems to have ample funds for his brief periods "ashore"-Saturday nights and Sundays...
...Come Home to Roost," an American Comedy by Fred Herendeen, is principally another way for the playgoer to fritter away an evening until the season settles down to being serious. In spite of the resuscitation of some very old jokes, the evening will be pleasantly enough spent, with an almost perpetual grin occasionally erupting into a laugh. But that's about all to expect...