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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from $1.14 on fewer shares a year ago. National Biscuit Co. expected slightly better earnings than last year, as did General Baking Co. Grand Union increased its dividend from 18? to 20? a quarter on the basis of record sales. And General Foods, buoyed up by the best first quarter in its history, broke into the elite $1 billion sales club for the first time in the fiscal year ending March...
...best-known American in the picturesque kingdom of Thailand is a greying, well-tanned onetime architect named James H. W. Thompson, 52, who has almost singlehanded saved Thailand's vital silk industry from extinction. When Jim Thompson arrived in Thailand in 1945 as an OSS officer (and stayed on as political adviser to the American minister), silk weaving as a local industry had almost died under the onslaught of cheaper and more durable machine-made silk. Today, almost every ship or plane that leaves Thailand carries Thai silk to some 17 countries, and Thompson's Thai Silk...
...Gioconda Smile, Huxley's most famous story, is the best. His hero, Mr. Hutton, is clever, covered in tweed and money troubles, able to explain everything about everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman...
...told, the varsity won nine events, placed second in six, and third in only four. Captain Pete Reider, surprise starter in the mile, beat Jerry Lewis of Army in 4:19.1, while Bill Thompson took third with a stunning 4:22 plus, by far his best...
...evening were the novelty of a hierarchical list of patrons which appeared along with some excellent notes by Assistant Professor Allen D. Sapp in the program; and a dance (music by Marshard) which followed the concert. As for the concert itself--it was just another concert, and not the best of the year, for that matter...