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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespeare enthusiasts have an opportunity to hear a complete reading of the Bard's little-produced "Coriolanus" in Sanders Theater at 2 p.m. this afternoon. The production is being given by members of English 123, and admission is free and open to the public...
Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley, refreshed from a Florida vacation, found that his Pentagon office staff had given him a new gadget: a clock with an 18-hour face ("so you can work a 36-hour...
...many Americans, Trippe's given name sounds vaguely like some foreigner's; to many Latin Americans, the Juan sounds vaguely like some countryman's. Both notions are wrong, although the second has had its subtle advantages in his diplomacy south of the border. The name came from his Aunt Juanita Terry; he speaks neither Spanish nor Portuguese. He comes from a long line of Marylanders, one of whom fought in the battle of Tripoli...
...there in holding his rents down to pre-inflation levels when he must pay every laborer twice as much for the ever-needed repairs on his property? And what about coal costs--while the administration mollycoddles the miners? Isn't building material higher? Oh, yes, all landlords were given a chance to receive a 15 percent increase by tendering their tenants a lease--very decent of a labor-catering administration that has removed other cellings long...
Soloists, orchestra, and all 300 members of the Glee Club and Choral Society deserved every bit of it. They did everything that Koussevitzky told them to do, and since he was the boss, that is the highest praise they could be given...