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...really terrific article ... How can there be spirit in an outfit like this? Get rid of these officers and send us some men and we'll show the Pentagon an outfit...
...been the cleanest of college comics; there have been, however, occasional lapses when it has strayed after false gods. In the future we shall endeavor to eliminate these periodical lapses." The Lampoon wasn't the only College publication to make innovations. The Advocate began livening up its issues "to rid itself of the stigma of being merely 'academic' or 'precious...
After his first major TV appearance, John Cameron Swayze eagerly phoned his wife Tuffie. "How did I look?" he asked breathlessly. Said Turner "Like you were dead." A bit dismayed, Swayze got rid of most of the television make-up he had been wearing, added a toupee to thicken out his sparse thatch, set himself to cultivating an air of friendly animation. In three years, these simple measures have helped to propel brisk, 45-year-old Newsaster Swayze into a bigger-than-TV prominence. His Camel News Caravan weekdays, 7:45 p.m., NBCTV) now has an audience of some...
...contract was all signed, Mack told SEC. All he needed was SEC approval. (Since SEC had ordered Electric Bond & Share to get rid of N.P. & L. under the Public Utility Holding Company Act, chances were good that SEC would approve.) While he was in a buying mood, Mack also made an offer to individual holders of N.P. & L. stock. He would buy their stock at 45^ a share (10? more than its book value). That was the price he was paying Electric Bond & Share for its holdings. Thus, those who had rushed to buy on Winchell...
Lady Belper never liked the small painting of Christ in the library of her home, Kingston Hall in Nottinghamshire. When villagers asked her to contribute something to their jumble sale last winter she thought she'd "get rid of it once and for all." She tagged the picture at a few shillings and sent it off. But bargain-hunting villagers didn't give it a second glance. Back it came to its donor...