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...other universities must justify their privileged positions in society, their claims to high service and moral leadership, by actively using their endowments in an attempt to reform the American corporate system as a whole. This means buying a few shares just to make trouble (becoming an institutional Wilma Soss). This means acting in concert for maximum leverage. This means initiating stockholder action, not waiting for others--because if the beneficiaries of free enquiry won't act, who will...
...about to fiddle with their traditional Thanksgiving menu. Julia is as patriotic as the rest, but she cannot resist giving her Thanksgiving a French accent. The turkey she and Paul will share with her sister-in-law in Bucks County, Pa., is called dindon demi-désossé (see diagram). To make it easier to carve, the upper part of the rib cage is removed before roasting. She plans to use a sausage and bread-crumb dressing (rough measurement is I cup of dressing for each pound of "bought weight"), recommends marinating the cut-up breast meat in cognac...
Conspicuous among the 1,400 shareholders at the company's second annual meeting in Washington's Shoreham Hotel were two familiar chairman baiters: Mrs. Wilma Soss and Lewis D. Gilbert. As soon as Chairman Leo D. Welch called for order, Mrs. Soss was on her feet demanding to know if a proper notice of the meeting had been mailed. Welch ruled the question out of order, and a shouting match began. Finally, Welch did what many a corporate chairman has long felt like doing: he ordered Gilbert and Mrs. Soss to leave the meeting. Gilbert left with...
After half an hour, Gilbert and Mrs. Soss were readmitted, not the least contrite. Characteristically, Mrs. Soss demanded to know how much it had cost the company to have her thrown out. The company, Welch explained, was paying $2.25 an hour for each of the ten Pinkertons. Added Welch blandly: "It's a good arrangement...
Even those who just like to soss ("sit lazily in a chair'') will notice what a fine, manly style of address Johnsonian English really is. Johnsonian English, which has come to mean a sonorous and orotund Latinity of style, anfractuously embellished with dependent clauses like the marble ornaments of a baroque memorial in a Wren church, was as close to the farmyard, the tavern and the brawling life of London streets as it was to the Latin grammar...