Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hotel Edison, Equity was in session. Poised, ponytailed children from The Sound of Music, clutching lap dogs, mingled with Negroes from Raisin in the Sun and Orientals from A Majority of One. Sari-draped Vivien Leigh held court, apparently trying to play a curious mixture of Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Equity's George Nicolau recalled the 1919 strike: "Let your answer be now as it was then-Equity!" But hardly anyone remembered the old marching hymn. Shrunken in size. Equity is now "just a cut above the horseshoers" (as one labor organizer cracked), and for years has been...
Died. Georges Claude. 89. called "the Edison of France," a pioneer in the use of liquid air and rare gases, inventor in 1910 of the neon light; of a heart attack; in St.Cloud. France. A political royalist, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945 for wartime collaboration with the Nazis, was paroled 4½ years later...
...avidly admired novel on modern American campuses, Tulsa's School Superintendent Charles C. Mason had one comment: "Shocking!" Mason was jarred when eight angry parents shoved the book under his nose and bitterly complained that English Teacher Beatrice Levin had assigned it to their 16-year-olds at Edison High School. The parents were not taken with Novelist Salinger's 16-year-old hero, a sensitive boy named Holden Caulfield who goes underground for 48 hours in Manhattan to escape insensitive grownups. The book, said they, had "filth on nearly every page." One four-letter word in particular...
When the irate parents hit Tulsa's newspapers, bookstores sold out all copies of Catcher the first day. More important, the Tulsa Tribune school editor failed to find one Edison High student opposed to Teacher Levin (adult citizens were about equally divided). Said Student Barbara Miller, 16: "I've learned a great deal from Mrs. Levin. Our whole fourth-period class is behind her 100%." Added Teacher Levin's husband: "What do they want high school students to read-Peter Rabbit?" That was not the way Superintendent Mason viewed it. But after commiserating with the complaining parents...
Dowling's City Investing was a pioneer in making factories airy, pleasant places to work, has built multimillion-dollar industrial parks at Edison Township. N.J., Elmira, N.Y.. Atlanta. When the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to build its Penn Center in downtown Philadelphia, it called on Dowling for the planning. He urged the road to sacrifice some office rental space in favor of setback buildings with fountains, air and light, convinced Pennsy brass that what was lost in footage would be made up in higher rent. When Pittsburgh was having trouble deciding how to go about redeveloping its gritty downtown...