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...almost entirely by a $7,250,000 inheritance tax windfall from the estate of Industrialist Lammot du Pont, who died in 1952. Lately, however, alarmists in Delaware have cried that rising costs would put the state in the red by the end of fiscal 1956. Last week State Auditor Clifford Hall pacified his fearful fellow citizens, reminded them of the bittersweet fact that Industrialist Eugene du Pont had died in 1954. Delaware's take: $4,500,000-the harbinger of another pleasant surplus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...seniors only. Similar oversubscription is true to a lesser degree in all undergraduate courses, usually by as much as 25 percent. The popular Fine Arts 13 is faced every fall with students overflowing into the aisles, on folding chairs, and practically on the stage. The result is that the auditor is almost non-existent in Fine Arts...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Inflation, Increased Interest in Art Put Squeeze on Museum Program | 3/27/1956 | See Source »

...Cuss Word. Despite his success as a Democratic politician, Lausche is the despair of Ohio's professional Democrats, most of whom he loudly classifies as "bosses." In 1950, when his loyal supporter, State Auditor Joe Ferguson, ran for the U.S. Senate, Lausche made it quite plain that he thought Republican Robert A. Taft was a much better man (Taft beat Ferguson by 450,000 votes while Lausche was being re-elected Governor by 150,000). Since 1952, Lausche has been unstinting in his praise of Republican Dwight Eisenhower, only last week said in a speech that Eisenhower has brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Rule Breaker | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...monologue effects one is liable to get in reading, when often the various speakers are practically indistinguishable. Moreover, though many of Joyce's visual puns are lost in the transition to the stage, the actors' interpretations through pantomime and inflection clear up a number of obscurities and carry the auditor happily through scenes where he might easily be left wallowing in confusion...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Finnegans Wake | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

...county's teachers are doing to make ends meet. For an extra $12 a day, two principals are working for the state as judge and chief inspector at the Tampa greyhound race track; another teacher gets $9 a day from the state at the track as assistant auditor. The track itself is employing five more principals and two more teachers for such jobs as bet-taker and gatekeeper. Thundered the indignant Tribune: "In their private lives, they [principals and teachers] must conduct themselves so as to set an example for youth. A race track is essentially a gambling place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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