Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Gimbel sent Macy's Straus a direct challenge. He offered to bet $25,000, $50,000 "or any amount you care to name" (with the winnings to go to charity) that Macy's could not disprove his claim to the underselling championship of Herald Square. At Macy's, where they have a policy against opening books and telling Gimbals, there were no takers...
...Medical Center, there can be no question as to the need for enlarged, modernized, and more conveniently located medical service and equipment. This is a need for enlargement of existing, if strained facilities, however, rather than for the creation of totally new ones. It can and should be taken care of, but by more ordinary financial measures than a fund for a war memorial...
Nobody seems to care that only three-quarters of the Met's 3,500 seats have a full view of the stage. The Met's hidebound directors have kept out all Negro singers-including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson. It may not be the Met's fault that opera is a declining art (the last first-rate popular opera was written in 1910), but the Met so far has done nothing to encourage the most promising opera composer of the day, England's young Benjamin (Peter Grimes) Britten (TIME...
...Patients are beaten up and murdered by attendants. . . . [They] are starved. . . . [They live in] antiquated, unsanitary buildings [amid] filth, vermin and overcrowding. . . . Care of the mentally ill is a national disgrace...
California Physicians Service, a plan for voluntary prepaid medical care, is a favorite American Medical Association candidate to beat off socialized medicine. This week the C.P.S. plan scored a noteworthy coup: at one stroke it spread over much of the West. Teaming up with similar plans in seven other western states (Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), C.P.S. set up a system of reciprocal services which will cover 1,000,000 members...