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...four of the pianists do the arranging. Each keeps in mind the special talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...
...currency was announced, all stock exchange transactions were frozen. The day before the announcement, a traders' pool, working on inside information, dumped 30 million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
Bart Harvey put on another good performance on the defense, and earned promotion to the "B" team only a day after he was raised to the third string. Another wingback, Freshman Paul Lazzaro, was working out with the Varsity on the strength of his having sparked the Jay- vee touchdown drive against Andover...
Mayor Levi pronounces his name lee-vie, is distressed when he hears it called lee-vee, regards his ancestry as Anglo-Saxon. He is friendlier to the Jewish influx than was Founder Fisher, whose companies' hotels still bar Jews...
...nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel? He eats caw-vee-yah! Do you folks know what caw-vee-yah is?" "What?" some yokel would ask faintly. "Why that's fish eggs. That's what it is - fish eggs...