Word: etting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even this list does not exhaust Hachette's properties, nor its claims to dominance. Brodard et Taupin, France's largest printing house, is a Hachette subsidiary. Hachette has links with two advertising agencies, Havas and Publicis. It owns a mill that makes coated paper, has a majority interest in a company that binds books and manufactures stationery, and in another that produces textbooks and school supplies. It controls one company producing TV programs and owns another. It owns a bank. It operates all 1,217 news kiosks in Paris' Métro, railroad stations and airports...
Willson has borrowed the book for his musical from a whimsical little cream puff of a 1947 movie called Miracle on 34th Street. Stuck with an inebriated Santa, Macy's unwittingly hires the real Kris Kringle to handle the reins as Donder, Blitzen, et al., mush through the big Thanksgiving Day parade. Kris (Laurence Naismith) stays on for the holiday rush and he is a loving wonder at dandling the kids on his knee. There are minor complications, of course, like St. Nick's spending a day or two in the mental ward at Bellevue until his credentials...
...group of Harvard students returning this Fall from summer traineeships abroad. The students, who worked in Nigeria and Venezuela as well as in Western Europe, received their jobs through the local Harvard chapter of an international business exchange program, AIESEC (Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commercials...
...that another group of students, led by members of the Yale Daily News, is trying again to arrange for a visit by Wallace, Brewster has a chance to learn from his students and offer them every encouragement. The Yale motto, with which Brewster may be familiar, is "Lux et Veritas"; it is given to no president to suppress either...
Everything about the party was high. It took place at 33,000 ft. aboard a DC-8 en route from Montreal to Paris. The cake was in the shape of a straw hat, and the nightlong free champagne was Moët et Chandon 1955. It was Trans Canada Air Lines' way of bidding happy birthday to Maurice Chevalier, 75. Said the septuagenarian on landing: "I haven't closed my eyes since I left Montreal, but I don't feel tired at all." Will he ever retire? "I'd like to do a movie with Brigitte...