Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very rarely does the transition from stage to screen improve a play. But The Long Voyage Home, aided by John Ford's deft direction, is one of the select few. Actually the picture, a series of four one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill, is more suited to the screen; few theatres can accommodate ships...
...while losing six last season, had balked at a salary cut, and the Yankees, said General Manager George Weiss, were fed up with "independently wealthy men, who, through the winning of five pennants and world championships, have become too complacent." Within four days, Holdouts Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford agreed to sign their Yankee contracts...
BOOTLEG sales of new 1954 cars at cut-rate prices to used-car dealers is becoming a serious problem. Both Ford and General Motors have sent letters to their 26,200 dealers warning that any dealer caught selling new automobiles below the list price may lose his franchise...
This report, released last January, was prepared by representatives of the preparatory and university "Big Threes"--Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Exeter, Andover and Lawrenceville. The study group, set up in the fall of 1951 by a grant from the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education, urged extensive integration of secondary and higher education land suggested a seven-year program for the "superior student...
Princeton and Yale have not acted so quickly. In October, Princeton Dean of Admissions C. William Edwards said that the Princeton faculty land administration were "very interested and receptive" and were "seriously considering" the report. He added, however, that they were awaiting the completion of the Chalmers report another Ford Foundation study now in progress at 12 colleges...