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...John Williams' appointment pad in his dingy Millsboro office is a notation for Nov. 5: "Duck hunting-win or lose." If he wins, he plans to go right on watching the tax collectors, although he thinks it won't be necessary if Ike gets...
Penn is trying to pad its athletic pockets again. This time the prodigal of the Ivy League, through athletic director Fran Murray, is out to wreck the NCAA partial black-out on college football games...
...Harrison's old teacher, Harvey Corbett, offered him a partnership. Harrison jumped at the chance, and for "the next four years designed a series of auditoriums and office buildings with Corbett. Architecture was almost his entire life. There was always a drawing board in his room and a pad & pencil by his bed. In the morning, his wife usually found the floor littered with scrawls and sketches...
...most carefully guarded files in the Littauer Building is a folder of eighty odd sketches of members of the Economics Department by Professor Wassily Leontief. The secretaries of the building regard the collection jealously as theirs by right of salvage; after each conference one of them Leontief's memorandum pad, date it, and add it to the series. "Not many professors know about it," says the current holder. "But some of them sneak in once in a while to see themselves...
...When the neighbors saw him walking around on cold days wearing a hat and overcoat but no shoes, some of them thought his parents couldn't or wouldn't buy him any. Not until he was twelve was he consistently shod. At 54 he still likes to pad barefoot around the farm when he is home, and around the house when he is in Washington. Says he: "I still don't like slippers...