Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage earners (19%). Executives came second (18%), housewives and widows third (16%). (Although Merrill Lynch did not specify, probably much less than 19% of its total business came from wage earners.) Merrill Lynch did not know whether or not its customers had made money. But Merrill Lynch had not done too well itself in 1947. Gross income of $22,377,582 was 24% under 1946; Net income before taxes was $1,827,952, down...
Mickey Rooney, who must play to a large following that knows what it wants, reminds one that horsing and hamming can be done with as much skill and power as real acting. His proficient use of his body, in the early fights, is reminiscent of Chaplin or Astaire. In flashes, he plays straight; then and throughout his performance, it is clear that one of the best actors in pictures is wasting his time for lack of roles worthy of him-for example, Studs Lonigan...
...Miracle Can Happen (United Artists). Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Victor Moore, Harry James, and a distinguished supporting cast. Roving Reporter Meredith asks people what, if anything, a little child has done for their careers; they tell him, in flashbacks. It's all intended to be funny-and some...
...Take an hour off and evaluate yourself in terms of a labor marked. Don't grab something you feel you won't enjoy. Better work is done, and more money generally earned from jobs the workers enjoy. Also, a successful season at a particular place should guarantee re-employment at increased salary...
...Houses were designed mainly to provide a supplementary tutorial library, but times have changed. Because of the great demand, some Houses require users of the most popular texts to sign them in every hour so that others may have a turn; but it is hard to get much done when someone is sitting three chairs away waiting eagerly for the end of the hour. The University should change its policy and assign extra copies of vital books to the Houses where they will be in constant use, instead of keeping the whole horde at Boylston on the Union, where...