Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erase suddenly the bitter heritage of the ages. We can-we must -and we shall-go on striving to do all in our power to heal old wounds, rather than let them re-open into bloodshed. We can-and we do-use the full moral power of America to direct the purposes of all nations away from conflict and towards concord...
Even more surprising, the Administration hires a "Director of Dramatic Productions," who directs all the group's major productions, whether musicals, comedies, or dramas. In effect the director exercises a veto over productions, and last spring her refusal to direct Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman led to a rebel production sponsored by The Daily Pennsylvanian...
...Streetcar" will be presented next February. Fred Marker will direct the play and Jack Putnam will be the producer...
...Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, Neurosurgeon Eugene Spitz, 37, tried running a tube direct from baby Charles' head to his abdomen. It worked only for a few days at a time, then another operation was needed to clean it. To the father Dr. Spitz explained that he would like to drain the brain fluid into the jugular vein. But this would need a valve (to prevent back flow by the blood), and so far no satisfactory valve had been devised-they all had a tendency to clog...
...parties drastically curtail the supply of available tickets. In its first 3½ months, for example, 54 out of the 120 Fair Lady performances were completely sold out to benefit parties. At the non-benefit performances, 80% of the balcony and 20% of the orchestra seats are sold through direct-mail requests. At best, the 70-odd licensed ticket brokers divide up the remaining 650 orchestra seats, are legally entitled to sell each ticket for a $1.10 commission. (In 1955 New York ticket brokers sold approximately $8.8 million worth of tickets, made nearly $1.5 million in commissions...