Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Group 20 Players' sixth season is off to a running start with its bright production of Sheridan's The School for Scandal, which continues at Wellesley's Theatre on the Green through this Saturday...
...Berkshire Music Festival, Tanglewood, the weekend of July 25-27. The Summer School will arrange bus transportation, lodging, tickets for all events, and swimming privileges for a package fee of $28. Trips will also be planned to concerts at Castle Hill (Ipswich) and the Theatre-on-the-Green (Wellesley). If these appeal to your whim, pay a small visit to Mrs. Mel Clouser in Grays 2 for reservations...
...quick hand with cash became so famous last week that House investigators pricked up their ears when they heard that his mills had sold the U.S. Army $2,255,000 worth of cloth in the last five years for uniform shirts and pants. (Also: $42,651 for green pool-table cloth, presumably used to cover Navy mess tables.) At the same time the investigators were asking Goldfine to bring to the committee, when he appears next week, some $770,000 in uncashed cashier's checks that they learned about from study of his records...
...place where he had found the rock. They worked carefully up the slope, pushing the veld grass gently aside with their hands, until they struck an outcrop of pegmatite and schist. It was the end of their search. Embedded in the soft, weather-beaten rock were emerald clusters, green and unmistakable...
...last week the news was out, and Southern Rhodesia was in a dither about the greatest find of emeralds in Africa since the days of the ancients who used to dig the green gems from "Cleopatra's Mines" near the shores of the Red Sea. To the ancients, emeralds were a specific against epilepsy and dysentery, an aid in childbirth, eye troubles and the preservation of chastity. To Contat and Oosthuizen, the emeralds at Belingwe may represent a fortune in excess of $20 million. They have already turned down an offer of $2,800,000 for a quarter share...