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...when that sport is fostered, through the construction of cement courts and clean washroom facilities, the sparkling concommitants of the sport's success are increased student concern with personal hygiene and the uplifting weltenschaung of a dynamic new geist...
...publishing firm of Simon & Schuster, Korda, 42, updates Adman Shepherd Mead's 1952 book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the result could be made into an equally entertaining musical comedy. In Mead's day, the status symbol was a key to the executive washroom. Now, says Korda, it is an IBM Selectric II for your secretary...
...Most of my friends died on the verge of getting pensions. Because the truck driver at 40, his kidneys are beginning to kick up or he's got his whole prostate gland giving him a bad time." There are also moments of revelation. From a black washroom attendant in Chicago...
...miniaturist, and at his best a Fragonard of the nefarious. But in Cogan 's Trade he is not quite at his best. He spends too much time away from his strongest character and sput ters four-letter words until some pages read like excerpts from a washroom wall. Talk is his forte, and the talk in this book is uninspired. But the action is sharp, and Higgins provides some hilarious glimpses of the home life of the North American gorilla - one thug is on cortisone for colitis, another takes a contract because his wife needs some root-canal work...
Promises, Promises involves a struggling insurance company clerk, C.C. "Chuck" Baxter. Baxter wins his way to happiness and a key to the executive washroom by loaning out his $86.50 a month apartment to libidinous vice presidents and their ambitious secretaries. In the process, Baxter manages to fall in love with the very cafeteria waitress who is involved with the almighty Director of Personnel. Aha! Complication! Misunderstanding! Humor! Agony! Unfortunately, we don't get all that...