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Ideally, the charity ball provides a useful social ladder for the rising and able newcomer to enter Society. If the parvenus seldom wangle invitations for the intimate little dinners of the inner circle, it scarcely matters; their daughters will be asked to the right deb parties and meet the right boys. And when they are married, they can give intimate little dinners of their...
...Floyd Patterson, 27, felt a sudden urge to revisit the locale of one of his early chapters. Dragging along a passel of pals, the dusky boxer hustled them aboard a rush-hour "A" train to a subway station beneath Brooklyn's High Street station. Floyd scooted up a ladder to the dark cranny where 17 years ago. as a shy and unhappy ragamuffin, he spent his hours as a chronic hooky player from school. "Just like I remember it," said Floyd. "Crazy, man," said a trainer. Someone else had found Floyd's hideaway. Rummaging around, he found...
...great students. It can altar or course, and its repeated efforts to create an acceptable course in logical sciences form one would be hard to tell whether influence has yet spread to other , but it certainly affects teaching fellows the Committee the men who will climb the ladder to tenure in the department . This effect can certainly be expected to increase...
...marking up its fifth loss against eight wins, the Crimson lost the first and the last four matches of the seven man ladder. At number one, Bruce Johnstone shot a 77, but lost to Dick Leukart 2 down. Johnstone lost four of the first five holes and then made a strong bid by parring the last thirteen holes, but Leukart held on to win with a bird on the eighteenth...
...general manager of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. Says horn-voiced Eagle: "You don't find freaks in sideshows any more. You find strange people, odd people, unusual people-sword swallowers, tattooed people, strongmen, magicians, escape artists, ventriloquists, or men who can walk up a ladder of swords. But no freaks...