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Unlike the pictures that hang on the walls of other Manhattan galleries, 460 Park Avenue's portraits are not for sale. They are samples. Each sample is by a different portrait painter. Most of 460 Park Avenue's clients are bank presidents, business executives, hotel managers, or fond...
ONE FEELS always a pardonable reluctance to agree with a publisher's blurb; but it is impossible to deny the truth of the dust jacket's statement that the New Yorker publishes the best prose fiction in America and that a splendid sampling of that fiction has been brought together...
Blond, begoggled James Lorimer Ilsley, Canadian Finance Minister, brought in his so-called "baby budget." which the House of Commons promptly passed. No baby, the budget slapped an immediate embargo on some $50,000,000 worth of annual imports from the U. S. Samples: automobiles, oysters, tobacco, comic strips, fiction...
Other cases are devoted to samples from forty or more scholarly works, books about Harvard and the Loeb Classical Library. Showings of the great works of scholarship by many great Harvard teachers, George L. Kittredge, Charles H. Grandgent, E. K. Rand, George Foot Moore, Clifford H. Moore, Wilbur C. Abbot...
Relying on scientific methods rather than the size of his sample, Roper, with a small staff of interviewers (81, compared to Gallup's 1,100 and Wall's 4,000), seldom samples the opinions of more than 5,000 citizens, chosen according to age, occupation, sex, economic condition...