Word: dunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching in a school at Mussoorie, 100 miles north of New Delhi, and fortnight ago she sent a note to her mother in the U.S. saying how much she enjoyed being back. Then, one day last week, she accepted an invitation to stay overnight in nearby Dehra Dun with Mrs. Herbert Strickler, 59, wife of the executive secretary of Presbyterian missions in India...
Next morning Elizabeth Bennett was found beaten to death in her bed. In her own room was the body of Mrs. Strickler, who had been stabbed. There had been no recent religious or political troubles in Dehra Dun. Death came to Elizabeth Bennett and Martha Strickler, not in the missionary's tradition of martyrdom or persecution but through the brutal, almost random act of a thieving intruder...
...Love of Four Colonels (by Peter Ustinov) does something to brighten a dun-colored season, but not much to fur ther the dramatic art. The first play of London's precocious, prolific Peter Ustinov to appear on Broadway, a play is precisely what Four Colonels cannot be called. In essence it is a series of parodies set inside a framework of fantasy; and like most jokes that last all evening, it would far better keep earlier hours. But Playwright Ustinov at his best is witty and at his next-best rather gay, and Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer...
...exchange of views was friendly, however, and everybody thought that the conference had been interesting, if inconclusive. Said Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C., "We have come not to prove each other wrong, but to establish our differences; not to win victories over each other, but to submit ourselves to the discipline of shared seeking." Said Sweden's Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, the conference's chairman and president: "The mere fact that we are here to clarify attitudes and learn each other's views at first hand will help spread the idea of common faith...
...consumers are still thirsting for more. No less than 14% of U.S. families plan to buy a car next year; 8% of the nation's non-farm families have tentative plans to buy houses -more, in both cases, than in 1952. Businessmen got the same sort of sounding. Dun & Bradstreet polled 1,277 key manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, found that 61% of them expect last-quarter sales to top the same period in 1951. One hopeful bellwether: mail-order and chain-store sales in July were 8% ahead of last year...