Word: april
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enjoyed your April 27 article on Larry Adler. My husband and I saw him at the "hungry i" in San Francisco, and were interested to note that the audience, composed mainly of young people, was enthusiastic about his jazz and blues, but it took the classics to bring down the house...
...appreciative chuckle over your story on Senator Kennedy [who met with 51 Methodist bishops and answered questions on his Roman Catholicism-April 27]. But regret that this feature of a semiannual meeting of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church was described as an "odd inquisition." Panel quizzes (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) regularly bring out sharper interrogation via TV networks. How many show producers courteously furnish the "quizzed" with an advance list of questions? Bishop Oxnam's innovation sounds like an intelligent and highly effective method of gaining firsthand information on matters of real...
...regret that the time has come when I must register my disapproval of your April 27 article on veterans' benefits, called "Tailoring the Dole." When the word "dole" is used, it is, to say the least, unkind. It places a stigma on all veterans who are receiving compensation or pension, regardless of the circumstances in a particular case...
...Your April 27 article on Buick failed to mention an important reason why Buick took a sales nosedive. For years every ten-year-old kid could identify Buick's Special, Super, Century and Roadmaster-and so could the average man on the street. Our Automobile Topics Magazine recently interviewed 100 men on the street, asking them to identify the Le Sabre, Invicta and Electra; only 15% identified them as Buick models...
Unemployment, the 1958 recession's lingering hangover, faded fast last month to the lowest total (3,625,000) and the lowest percentage (5.3%) since December 1957. Workers went back on payrolls in April at twice the normal seasonal rate, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week. No fewer than 735,000 moved from the unemployed list to jobs, 452,000 of them married men in the vital family breadwinner category. The recovering economy also brought enough additional workers (mainly young people and women) into the labor force to boost total employment by 1,200,000 to 65 million...