Word: defunction
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...there a theatre public at Harvard? I assure you it numbers less than one thousand--except, of course, for Shakespeare. Will originals draw this public? Considering "The General," presented by the now-defunct Harvard Theatre Group last spring, they will not. Here was a thoughtful play by the co-author of a Broadway production which was by all accounts an artistic success. It had its world premiere in the thinking community of its birth. Yet it was a huge financial failure. We simply cannot take this risk...
...Over the holidays, however, many survivors also set up decorated Christmas trees or holly wreaths for the "little sleepers," and one San Francisco Chinese regularly spreads a post-mortem feast of cupcakes, fruit, lamb chops, boned chicken, hamburger, malted-milk tablets and Coca-Cola over the graves of two defunct dogs...
...blue chips which should be easy to sell: $85.9 million in railroad securities, $45.5 million in securities of banks and trust companies, and $67.1 million worth of home mortgages. But some other assets, including a $48 million loan to the Philippines, $42.3 million in obligations taken over from the defunct Defense Homes Corp., $18.3 million in disaster-relief loans, will probably be turned over to the Treasury with no attempt made to sell them...
...Roosevelt group. Among the Roosevelt-Yonkers owners: Nassau County Republican Boss J. Russel Sprague (who paid only $80,000 for stock now worth $400,000), two ex-members of the district attorney's staff, and Publisher James E. Stiles, owner of the defunct Nassau Daily Review-Star, Newsday's opposition. Newsday also broke the news that Labor Boss De Koning posed as a "nephew" and visited Sing Sing prison for conferences with Joe Fay, racketeering labor boss of New York-New Jersey building trades, who is serving a term for extortion...
Like most amateur political organizations, the Citizens for Eisenhower went into a rapid decline once its man was safely in the White House. Last week Administration political strategists persuaded James L. Murphy, 36-year-old San Francisco advertising executive, to take on the chairmanship of the all but defunct group. Murphy's mission: to get the Citizens for Eisenhower back to life and help win the 1954 congressional elections...