Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bouquet of costly perfumes. But the $4,500,000-a-year business of putting on the opera, a money-losing enterprise at best, always is a matter of shirtsleeves and hard heads, of penny-pinching and tough bargaining. Last month the Met's money-harried management threatened to cancel next winter's entire season because the managers and the artists' union could not get together on contract terms. But last week, at the last moment, the Met was saved by one of the soundest last-ditch devices of labor negotiations...
...much. No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken by his own improvidence, Louis now owes a staggering $1,210,789 in U.S. income-tax arrears for 1946-51. New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sie-minslci is appealing to the White House to cancel or soften the Sunday punch thrown at Louis by the revenooers...
...inflame the American people against the South by presenting in their columns biased and distorted views on the institution of segregation of races in our schools." To make doubly sure that no pupil would ever be corrupted by outside opinion, the board not only ordered the schools to cancel their subscriptions but also to dispose of all back issues-including Bossier City high's 1,300 copies of LIFE dating back...
...athletes moved into fraternity houses or stayed with friends; a hastily elected committee of twelve, under Varsity End Dan Coyle, went to Crisp with an ultimatum: abolish the bed checks for athletes whose sport is not in season, grant unlimited weekend privileges, cancel the four-hour compulsory study rule. Otherwise, said the athletes, they would not go back to Friedman Hall and they would not even play for Alabama...
...seem to arise from knowledge gained by Mr. Pierrepoint in the course of his official duties." That left Pierrepoint little of the noose fit to print. This week Pierrepoint reached the end of his rope. Announced the Empire News: "In view of the difficulties ... it has been decided to cancel the series...