Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story on Ray Edwards should not have been "The Bad Seed"; the title of another novel should have been borrowed and revised-"The Bad Earth"-in which the best of our seeds are wasted by the amateur gardeners we call society...
...paradox of the waning 1950s is that prosperity has become the root of problems. From Buffalo to Bombay, prosperity-fueled inflation is gnawing at the consumer's pocketbook, and the high cost of money is crimping the expansion plans of business and industry. The problem (which the Finns call "a crisis of prosperity") is reported and analyzed in BUSINESS, World Capital Shortage, and FOREIGN NEWS, Life on the Escalator...
...standard Verdian repertory. Her voice has appealed to most critics as a cross between Tebaldi's "silky elasticity" and Callas' bite and thrust. Big-boned and fleshy-faced, she has been most often criticized for carrying too much weight to put across the dramatic illusion her roles call for. "When they pay me a million lire an evening," says she, "I shall reduce...
...Nick. In Franklin, Ky., police got a telephone distress call to hurry "out to my house because something awful is about to happen," sped to the address, found, crouched behind the sofa, Billy Kratzert, 4, who pointed a trembling finger at his baby sitter, said: "She was going to spank...
...Numbers. In Detroit, Gas Station Attendant Lonnie Taylor, ordered by a bandit to hand over about $105 cash and then go into the men's room "to count to 100," got to five and hurried out to call police, found the gunman just leaving, was told to get back in and start again-from zero...