Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland Symphony gave a special concert; the Civic Theater arranged a concert-drama evening; the city put on a garden party. There was also a day-long trip up Mount Hood. Local clubs had donated the buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave away box lunches, the Chamber of Commerce distributed apples. Miss Howe had also arranged for conferences between the new teachers and their principals, shown them around their classrooms. Said Teacher Kenneth Means: "Portland's wonderful. I think we'll stick for quite a while...
...cool of night had descended on Ebbets Field; it was only 94° in the dusk. In a box on the 50-yard line sat old Branch Rickey, in his shirtsleeves, peering disconsolately at the half-empty house (16,411). His baseball Brooklyn Dodgers were packing in the fans; this was Rickey's first game as owner of a pro football team -also known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. All afternoon, ticket cancellations had poured in. Even three of Rickey's own guests begged off. Snorted Branch disgustedly: "Who ever heard of canceling a football game because...
...suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year's probation and told to get rid of that candy box under the bed-or else . . . Opera would be a lot more popular in this country if there were a few wolf whistles mixed in with the bravos...
...affaires, Nikolai Belokhvostikov, inviting him to join in. A week passed without an answer. Then Benavides' secretary phoned the Soviet embassy; he explained what was planned, suggested that the letter must have gone astray, and added that he was sure that Belokhvostikov would want his name on the box. "It is not customary," snapped the Russian as he hung...
...Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28) opened in Boston last week. It was a box-office sellout. But the theater was picketed-by an organization called the Sons of Liberty (an insurgent Jewish group renounced by both U.S. and British Zionists) and a delegation from the Irish Republican Prisoners' Release Association, who came up from New York...