Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Tobacco passed up George Washington Hill Jr., now 39, when it came to making a new president 18 months ago. To succeed old man Hill the directors picked Vincent Riggio, 71, who was vice president in charge of sales. Un der Riggio, Lucky Strike advertising went along as noisily as before, but Luckies' sales were no longer as good as they should have been. There was talk of trouble in the biggest tobacco company in the world...
...last week, a melancholy little note straggled into TIME'S Manhattan offices. It came from the editor of Der Optimist, a small Viennese weekly. Said the note: "We are sorry, that we have to announce you already today, that our paper will stop to appear with the ist of March. The time does not yet seem to be favorable for papers with optimistic titles -at least not in Central Europe...
...Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia, which coincided with the collapse of Der Optimist, had produced a sobering effect on most Austrians. More than half of their country rested in a Red nutcracker, with Czechoslovakia to the north, Hungary to the east, and Yugoslavia to the south...
...biology laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Der Rosenkavalier, with Jarmila Novotna, Irene Jessner, Emanuel List, Eleanor Steber...