Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thursday, at the traditional Christmas party, Fred M. Fialkow '51 will bring a magician, a piano-player, and a Santa Claus to Brooks House to entertain 25 Settlement House boys. Musical chairs, ice cream and cake, and a final distribution of clothes and toys by the Santa will fill the two hours between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. Competition is running high between PBH moguls for the post of Santa Claus...
Last week a remarkable book called The Seven Storey Mountain (Harcourt Brace; $3), the autobiography of a young poet who became a Trappist monk (TIME, Oct. 11), was a bestseller in its fifth printing. Thomas Merton's book was not designed to entertain; it does not offer readers escape-or tips on how to be popular or successful. In fact, the popular and successful reader may be made most uncomfortable by The Seven Storey Mountain. A sample of the book is its description of New York City's Negro quarter, Harlem...
...know of them, men like Aiken and Flanders of Vermont, Ives of New York, and Morse of Oregon are the true representatives of the basic American conservative tradition. They believe in the sanctity of the individual, his dignity and worth. They support both democracy and constitutionism. They entertain a continuing bias in favor of existing institutions, but they are prepared to keep open minds with regard to changes in institutions and government. Most important, they have learned that if the conservative values of human dignity, constitutionalism and private property are to be preserved then government, the Twentieth Century Leviathan, must...
...season's biggest night for PBH will come just before Halloween when the Social Service Committee, aided by the Speakers and Entertainers group, will stage 20 huge parties. Singing, vaudeville, and magic, as well as cider and doughnuts will entertain settlement house crowds...
...factory with an eye to the comfort of her 1,000 workers; it has tinted windows to eliminate glare, a drive-in entrance with a long canopy to keep workers dry on rainy days. Nellie's workers have their own five-acre country club, where they can entertain friends at luncheons and parties. They can get good meals at Nellie's cafeteria at 1938 prices (the difference is Nellie's loss...