Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards to "equalize" facilities...
Last week the pupils of John Kerr were remembering old Charley just as he would have wanted. When he died at 80, three weeks ago, only a handful of people bothered to go to his funeral, but by last week the whole town was talking about him. He had left an estate of $100,000, and he had put it all in trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend...
Although he has rung up record salaries in nightclubs ($460,000 for 46 weeks at Manhattan's Carnival) and vaudeville ($23,000 a week at Broadway's Roxy), Berle will work for nothing rather than go without an audience. He has entertained in hotel lobbies, restaurants, railroad stations, buses and cabs. (To a convulsed cab driver on whom he worked during a recent ride, Milton cracked: "You think this is funny? You should've caught me last Tuesday in a cab on 57th Street...
Once inclined to go overboard on horse bets, he tries to hew to a pocket-money allowance of $125 doled out weekly by a Wall Street law firm, which receives his income, pays his bills, nourishes his annuities and tends to the dozen companies lumped under the name Milton Berle Enterprises, Inc. Among his interests: a machine tool company, a furniture factory, real estate, music publishing, a toy business, a producing company...
Last week, the grand old man resigned as production chief of Fox, now will spend all his time on his 364 theaters. Although Fox President Spyros P. Skouras refused the resignation, it was almost sure to go through. Joe's move was in preparation for a Government antitrust order which is expected to direct Fox to divorce its production and distribution activities from its theater operations...