Word: 6d
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white, were hard and gutter-wise: girls who jiggled provocatively in too-tight sweaters, boys who slouched about in stovepipe jeans. Braithwaite's story of eventual victory over their ignorance-and their casually vicious race bigotry-is warmly told in To Sir, with Love (The Bodley Head; 13s. 6d.). By last week his publishers had printed 10,000 copies, and ex-Teacher Braithwaite (he is now a children's officer for the London social welfare department) was a.moderate literary sensation...
...current market value of the investments which comprise Morris' endowment is $13,156, and the income from this even together with the 6d (7 cents) admission fee charged each visitor, is now wholly inadequate to cover the cost of upkeep...
...Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall get going. A good many of the queue-hardy, in fact, stand all day, sometimes four abreast, in lines stretching around the hall and down the street. When the doors open at 6:45 p.m., they plop down their 2s. 6d., break for the arena floor, and go right on standing. Those with the best positions (i.e., as close to the conductor as possible) do not budge for the whole 2½-hour concert...
...association of British phillumenists (collectors of matchbox labels) reinstated one of its members who had been delinquent since July: former King Farouk of Egypt (who had a collection of 150,000 items before he left Egypt) finally got around to sending in his 125. 6d. back dues...
...London financial circles, traders gossiped and wondered as the stock of Selfridge's department store scooted from 31s. 9d. a share to 52s. 6d. in six months. Last week they heard the reason for the rise. Lord Woolton, chairman of the Conservative Party and of Lewis' Investment Trust Ltd., which owns a big chain of provincial department stores, had put in a $9,500,000 (?3,412,000) bid for the store. When Lord Woolton offered 65s. a share, Selfridge's Chairman Horace Holmes quickly advised his stockholders to sell. At the news, Selfridge's stock...