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...Room Nineteen is one of the bleakest stories about a woman ever written. It takes the reader over 38 blunt, brutal pages through the life-and death by gas-of Susan Rawlings. She is a career woman who has married one of her own emancipated kind -a successful journalist. Step by step, she withdraws from her husband, her children, and finally the world itself. There are no hysterics or overt scenes of disorder or despair. She simply rents a shabby hotel room and secretly goes there certain days in every week as if to meet a lover, actually...
...been expected that Mr. Trumbull Stickney, our gifted scholar and poet, who had initiated the performance, would play a leading role, and he had planned to vanish over week-ends during the winter "to the bleakest and loneliest sea beach in New England" (Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard?) to walk its sands while memorizing the whole play. Death took this gracious person, and he is grievously missed. The part of Choregos, which is probably the heaviest in the drama, was then assumed by Mr. Frank Hewitt Birch, who started from scratch without one word of Greek, sang Mr. Lodge...
...irrepressible was Blue Monday's selling pressure that more than 4,000,000 shares changed hands in the final 30 minutes of trading, and the last transaction did not clear the ticker tape until 2½ hours after closing. In the second bleakest day in Wall Street's history, the Dow-Jones industrial index plunged 34.95 to 576.93-21% below its peak of last December...
...varsity track team opened the spring season with the bleakest prospects in years. A dismal winter season, climaxed by a weak fifth-place finish in the indoor Heptagonals and a scoreless performance in the IC4A championship, had removed the Crimson from serious consideration as a power in Eastern track...
...Djakarta schoolboys filled the sky with kites, and shops, taxis and streetcars blossomed out with flags to mark the twelfth anniversary of Indonesia's declaration of independence from The Netherlands.* Gazing out on the festive scene last week, the Times of Indonesia somberly declared: "This is perhaps the bleakest Independence Day we shall be celebrating...