Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall, grey-haired Professor Miller's scholar colleagues are happy about his appointment. "If you turn a scholar into a dean," said one, "you are likely to end up with a frustrated man. Miller knows what's going on in the world of scholarship, but he isn't going to be torn apart...
...substances in tobacco smoke (or tar) that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...
When Ulysses comes home at last, his Penelope is so stunned at the sight of him that she can only shake his hand and stutter civilities. "Was Dienbienphu awful?" "Yes. Toward the end of the siege we ran out of wine." "That must have been awful." "Yes." A honeymoon breaks the ice, but the relationship refreezes when the marchioness discovers that her marquis keeps a woman on the side, and maintains any number of "little 5-to-7" friendships. From this point the comedy evolves into an earnest lecture, delivered by the marquis' uncle (Maurice Chevalier), on the merits...
...high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines, which topped 600 before sliding back at week's end. Behind the market advance was a growing realization by investors that 1959 will be a far better year than most had expected. The boom is already being reflected in earnings (see below...
...trouble luring people away from TV, are the favorites of the drive-in theaters, which have grown from 820 to more than 4,500 in the last ten years. The Ten Commandments, which cost $13.5 million, will have brought in more than $45 million by year's end. In the works: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Ben-Hur (cost: $14 million), Hecht-Hill-Lancaster's The Way West ($8,000,000), and 20th Century-Fox's The Alaskans, whose cost ($7,200,000) is about what the U.S. paid for Alaska...