Word: goings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maigret is a slick story of a manhunt. It opens, naturally enough, with a magnificent murder. The "Mairais Killer," so named because he does his business in the Marais quarter of Paris, has made a habit of stabbing young women. The killer challenges Inspector Maigret, who would prefer to go fishing, takes on the case...
Columbia's tuition will rise from $1100 to $1450; the increase at Brown is from $1250 to $1400. In addition, board rates in Providence will go up $50. With these increases, minimum pay for a full professor at Brown will be $11,000 per annum, which corresponds more closely to salary levels at other Ivy League schools...
...statistician has informed me that we will have to substitute a Democrat for this Republican to even the score. I hereby nominate Lucius Wormwood, Boston County dogcatcher, whose slogan smacks of Harvard: 'Elect Wormwood, or Boston will go to the dogs...
Mortimer himself is a market tester every waking hour, often picks out a good product instinctively. He often tries out new products on his family. When he brought home a packa.ge of Minute Spanish rice, the family circle liked it so well that he had to go back for more. When he discovered that General Foods was market-testing the rice, "I thought to myself, now what the hell for? How scientific can you get?" Market testing stopped the next morning, and the product has gone on to become an excellent seller. "At General Foods," says Mortimer...
Just as everything is going along fine, the war interrupts the proceedings and the men go to the front. Tearful scenes ensue--although it must be admitted that these are fairly convincingly played. Some of the men return, some don't, and the film ends where it began, with the now mature younger son watching his niece begin life the same way he did. The "cycle" is complete...