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...five days the Cornell senior drove around to the best places in Boston trying to sell the cab. After four lean days, the Cornell senior got two offers. He sold the cab to one asker and while the second waited he cabled London for six more...
Measure for Measure, if you parsed it and diagrammed it, might turn out to be a neat and a deep play. At one sitting, however, it is a mess of moral contradictions sitting uneasily in a shaky plot. Shakespeare was a notoriously profound asker of questions and he asks some big ones in Measure for Measure: What price Chastity? Do the ends justify the means? Is one man fit to judge another...
Although the effectiveness of group tutorial is a quantitative problem, the success of a teaching fellow as a tutor depends directly on his quality as a teacher. The teaching fellow, without previous teaching experience, is expected to be neither a lecturer nor a question-asker, but to perform the nebulous task of stimulating his tutees' intellectual interest in the field, and to prepare the student for general examinations...
...what they have already won) and try for more. Presumably a couple may win for 20 weeks running and thus get $100 a week for 20 years-a system of payoff that gives lucky contestants a far better income tax break than winning $100,000 outright. Host and question asker will be Edgar Bergen, assisted by such wooden stooges as Charlie McCarthy, Effie Clinker and Mortimer Snerd. CBS is confident that Do You Trust Your Wife? will be right up with The $64,000 Question as an attention-getter. Newsmen who last week watched a Hollywood run-through...
...Crown Princess Märtha; and Erling Svenn Lorentzen, 30, a commoner, well-to-do shipping executive and a hero of the Norwegian underground during World War II; in a simple ceremony attended by European royalty (including Britain's Princess Margaret) and Lorentzen's wartime comrades; in Asker Church near Oslo...