Word: 30th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME has lost its lists of early subscribers. When TIME was new, I suppose, the circulation department didn't see much point in keeping lists of subscribers from previous years. But now TIME is approaching its 30th birthday. And we'd like to find out who were on the list of original subscribers to TIME -and how many of them still subscribe. If you are - or know of anyone who was - a charter subscriber, will you write and let me know? I would also be interested in those who subscribed to TIME during its first three or four...
...Allan Shivers became a millionaire-by marriage. At a yachting party at Port Arthur in 1935, the young state senator had met pretty Marialice Shary, adopted daughter and only child of John Shary, pioneer real-estate promoter in the lower Rio Grande Valley. They were married on his 30th birthday. When John Shary died in 1945, Shivers became general manager of the mammoth John H. Shary Enterprises, which include vast citrus fruit groves, nurseries and canneries, farms, ranches, real estate, irrigation and oil-development companies, and a weekly newspaper (the Mission, Texas Times...
...first of August this year the office of Registrar Sargent Kennedy began making sure that Scandinavian 50 would have a roof over its head. On September 30th, when the last study card has been filed and the last irate professor has been moved to a big enough lecture room so that all his unexpectedly large group of admirerers can revel in his Ciceronian delivery, the job of assigning classrooms will be done--until the spring term...
Steel-muscled Commander Buzz Corry of Space Patrol (Sat. 11 a.m., ABC-TV) has spent the past 2½ years policing outer space for the United Planets of the Universe, a sort of 30th century U.N. Last week, on a routine space cruise, Corry was only mildly surprised to encounter a ship flying the Jolly Roger. He promptly boarded the pirate craft and disarmed the villainous crew. Villains are usually packed off to the U.P. Medical Science Center where, after a brainwashing, they become as true-blue and noble-souled as Corry himself...
...what labor called a "modified union shop" -and is, more accurately, a "revolving door" union shop. Under the new contract, all new employees must join the steelworkers' union, but if they don't like it, they can swing out the union door again between their isth and 30th day on the job. All steelworkers have the option of turning in their union cards during a 15-day period at the expiration of the contract in 1954. The union cannot touch old non-union employees...