Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy's pathetic fear of the amatory competitor of his youth, and his belief that his wife still loves the other man, lead to the high point of the play, a scene in which, fortified by a liberal dose of scotch, he decides to defend his mate by force, "like a tiger and his cubs." His eventual victory over the forces of ignorance is a wonderful boost to an intellectual ego shot to pieces by a week of midyears...
...pool Tri-Continental had formed last spring (TIME, May 20) that bought and later partly distributed the shares of great Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp. But the idea was older than that. When William Orville Douglas was chairman of SEC and Jerome Frank was his running mate, the U. S. economy was stagnating for want of new capital investment. The investment bankers, having no capital to speak of, were taking only seasoned issues they could retail at once. Douglas and Frank figured that the diversified investment trusts, with upwards of $1,000,000,000 in resources, ought...
...take this opportunity to put in a couple of plugs for John E. Green, the second mate, and Captain Cronin. They were the two most popular officers that I have ever seen on a ship. . . . An example of how Captain Cronin is capable of quelling trouble and solving problems without creating unnecessary ill feeling: One day a troublesome sailor, who hated the cook seemingly for no other reason than the cook was a Greek, swept into the captain's office and wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker...
...Another client was ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners are paid...
Captain Powers and Bus Curwen, prize Sophomore, will make a fine 220 team, and Curwen will probably double in the 440. Another Sophomore, Frank Gorman, stands a good chance of being his running mate in the quarter. Powers would thus be free to team with Lonnie Stowell in the 100 leaving Dave Stearns and a question mark...