Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theatre for Irwin Shaw's The Survivors, and went $5,000 into the red. The next fall production also lost heavily. In a desperate gamble, the HDC undertook an ambitious $9,000 mounting of Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Monty Woolley as imported guest star. Thanks largely to Woolley, this was the best show the HDC staged during this period, and it drew huge crowds. The artistic success was forgotten. however, as soon as it was discovered that $4,000 had been embezzled from the receipts...
Medicine for Business. Last October Rosie entertained her last guest. When police broke into her apartment they found her strangled with her own stockings. The police moved gingerly in the case, gently questioned a number of big industrialists, finally arrested an unemployed salesman named Pohlmann, who insisted loudly that he was not the murderer. Most tabloid-reading Germans believe...
...Advancement of Education, partly financed by American Telephone and Telegraph Co., International Business Machines Corp., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. and U.S. Steel, the physics course will feature topnotch scientists (first: Dr. James R. Killian Jr.. the President's special assistant for science and technology) as guest speakers, but its main lecturer will be Dr. Harvey E. White, University of California professor of physics. The first semester, "devoted to those aspects of physics necessary to an understanding of atomic and nuclear physics," will deal with kinematics, light, dynamics, electricity, magnetism. The second will emphasize atomic and nuclear physics...
During dinner, the nervous guest is too jumpy to look her in the eye, yet he dare not look any lower. He struggles simultaneously to 1) eat his omelette, 2) ignore Marie's sweater, 3) forget the socks 4) make conversation. And then, abruptly, incomprehensibly, they are clasped together on the couch. But the unsleeping, worrying mind refuses to leave well alone. "Whose socks are those?" he asks. "Actually," Marie answers, "Colin...
...corporation presidents. More than 300 American Expressmen started knocking on doors of executive suites all round the U.S. to sell the credit card (charge: $6 per year for initial card, $3 for other members of the same firm). To bolster its membership, American Express bought out the Gourmet Guest Club (membership: 45,000). Diners' fought back by picking up the Esquire Club (100,000 members). Then American Express scored a real coup: last month it bought the American Hotel Association's Universal Travelcard (160,000 members and 4,500 hotels) that Diners' had long and vainly wooed...