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...surprisingly, the candidate was Lester Peacock, 43, the bank's president and a fellow traditionalist, who seemed particularly interested in bankerly decorum. Peacock once remarked to his associates: "No gentleman ever wears brown shoes." The bank's board turned Peacock down flat because Crocker's pin-stripe conservatism had simply not been paying off. While more innovative, bolder California banks were gaining ground, the earnings of Crocker, the nation's 14th largest bank, were declining...
PERHAPS the environment in Sleeper is altogether too comfortable for Allen. There are jokes that he doesn't have to strive for. Often the best lines come from the old Allen, unbound by the plot, as when, identifying relics of the 1970s for the doctors, he explains the Playboy pin-up models never existed, but were inflated like balloons...
...Watergate case itself, the big mystery is still how 18 minutes of the White House tape recording of Nixon's conversation with former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972 -three days after the Watergate break-in-was erased. White House aides have tried to pin the blame on Secretary Rose Mary Woods, who admits to the possibility of having accidentally erased "four to five minutes" of the tape by mistakenly pressing the "record" button, evidently while keeping her foot on the pedal that advanced the tape. Presidential Chief Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt buttressed the theory, testifying...
...before Christmas vacation arrived, we had a party in Latin class and played Roman charades. Miss Davis had worn her sorority pin. A sign of a holiday, it was a bangle that covered the entire upper left ventral portion of her anatomy--it looked like a war decoration. She was in a fine humor, giggling and talking about her father who had died in the nineteen twenties...
Hofstra's nationally ranked heavyweight rubbed it in with a pin against Kip Smith, to the surprise...