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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeling that the plays of his day "tried to capture verisimilitude, not reality," Wilder set out to write plays that would exist against the largest dimensions of time and space. Our Town solves the problems of stagecraft by avoiding them. "There's some scenery for those who think they have to have scenery," comments the Stage Manager when two trellises are pushed out onto the stage. There are lighting directions--and Lewis Lehman's lighting was effective--but one has the feeling that the play could get by on the one bare bulb which shines on the stage...
Faces set in determination, the three-member delegation from the directors of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, West Germany's largest wire service, walked out of the board meeting in Cologne's posh Hotel Excelsior Ernst and up to the trim little man who had been waiting in the lobby. The man listened to only a few words before quietly interrupting: "I gather you want...
...Morgan-Guaranty Trust merger got final approval from Federal Reserve Board. New bank is fourth largest in U.S., has resources of more than $4 billion, capital funds of more than $500 million...
...Among his early jobs: designing a special coil that made possible the first practical commercial auto radio. He learned to fly, and in 1930 opened an aviation-electronics business that turned out the first practical light-plane radio. After World War II, Lear burgeoned as the world's largest manufacturer of autopilots and a major supplier of other gadgets for planes and a dozen missiles, including the Titan, Bomarc, Polaris and Nike-Zeus. On the side, after three quick marriages, Lear settled down with Wife No. 4, Moya Olsen, daughter of Olsen of the Olsen & Johnson comedy team...
...investors have been stepping up their buying of European securities for the past six months. The largest single stock purchase by 26 major U.S. funds in the fourth quarter of 1958 was the holding company for Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, the G.E. of Holland. So many orders are going into London from the U.S. that at least two London brokers are keeping their trading desks open until 8:30 p.m. to handle orders to buy British securities. The Frankfurt stock exchange, which closes before the New York Stock Exchange opens because of the time difference, is thinking of reopening later...