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...wife in his arms and sang to her the old Thai ballad that begins: "The love of 100 mistresses could not be compared to the love one has for his own wife." Sarit may have been altogether too modest. After his death last December (of cirrhosis and other ailments of hard living), Bangkok papers carried the names of more than a hundred women who claimed publicly to have enjoyed his favors and hoped to get a piece of his estate. Among an inner circle of 51 mistresses, whom the old-school Thais delicately call "minor wives," Marshal Sarit had generously...
...Parking. Thailand now has few er than 10,000 registered working elephants v. some 150,000 automobiles. Says one old-school Thai: "Oh, yes, rich men still use elephants, but only when they go into the forest to work. Where friends can see them, they ride automobiles instead...
Died. Charles Sweeny, 81, a freewheeling millionaire's son and old-school soldier of fortune, who from the age of 16 got into every war worthy of the name; of a stroke; in Salt Lake City. Sweeny fought for the U.S. in the Spanish-American War, for Poland against the Bolsheviks in 1919, for Ataturk in the Turkish revolution, for the French against Abd el Krim in 1925, for the loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. He beat the U.S. into both world wars, serving in the French Foreign Legion early in World War I, where he became...
...recurrent rumor in college-club circles is the formation of an overall "Ivy League Club." Pittsburgh's Harvard, Yale and Princeton clubs long ago merged. Merger is considered a last-ditch expedient-especially since so much of a college club's esprit depends on old-school loyalty-but it definitely is in the air. Says President Robert V. Cronin of Manhattan's Brown Club: "The chances of club amalgamation in the future are much greater than for the continued existence of individual clubs...
...Economic Issue. Menon has no direct responsibility for India's economy, but his political opponents in the campaign point out accurately that his ideas strongly influence Nehru. They are both old-school, doctrinaire socialists of the 1930s variety, and both insist, against considerable evidence, that all the world is inevitably turning to socialism. They refuse to recognize that all the older socialist parties of the free world have abandoned the rigid formulas since World War II, and that the greatest progress has been achieved (in Germany, Western Europe, Japan) by relatively free enterprise. Of that progress Menon says scornfully...