Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Velde indicated that the committed is now probing for communism in colleges and universities "for the benefit of the colleges themselves and the people; we would be doing the same thing in relation to churches...
Sign Language. In Cincinnati, Leroy Huntley accused his wife at a divorce hearing of placing gummed stickers about the house for his benefit: BE SURE TO PUT DIRTY HANDS ON THE WALLPAPER ... BE SURE TO SLOP UP THE MIRROR ... BE SURE TO MESS THIS UP ... MIGHT AS WELL PUT THE GARBAGE IN THE LIVING ROOM...
...Perchance Mr. [Beverley] Baxter might benefit from a bicycle trip through the good, solid American countryside. There he might find some who would be in a homey, talkative mood, thus imparting to him yet another side of U.S. life ... If it's conversation he wants, any housewife over here could bring him down to earth in nothing flat. He'd find that a good portion of us are college graduates, as are our husbands. We're usually a family of four with the usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets...
...money was pouring in. Movie stars raised 30 million raffling off cars at a Paris auto show, the state-run casino at suburban Enghien signed up for 30 million a year, the French National Lottery promised another 400 million a year. From all over France donations came in from benefit dances, music festivals, theater performances and house-to-house canvases. Everybody contributed, from the Bank of France (10 million francs) to retiring U.S. Ambassador David Bruce (400,000 francs...
...worth and sponsors witht that kind of money seldom choose to spend it on opera. But NBC comforts itself with the thought that the next best thing to profits is prestige. Since 1949, NBC-TV has boosted its prestige with more than a dozen operas, mostly without benefit of sponsors. Last week No. 16 on the list went before the cameras: Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu's The Marriage. Like Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951), martinu's opera is short (55 minutes), written to be sung in English, and constructed...