Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspect of this otherwise laudable program seems to have gone more or less unnoticed. Both the President and everybody else recognize that a return to gracious living will be expensive, but they have publicly assumed that this expense will be met by the alumni and friends of the College who supply the ten million for new construction. The facts are beginning to emerge somewhat differently. It now appears that a large proportion of the expense will be born by the undergraduate, or his parents...
...days before. At week's end the market steadied, but the Dow-Jones average ended the day at 466, nearly 11 points off from the previous week. Wall Streeters began watching anxiously for a test of the 460 Dow-Jones level, where the market has met strong buying support three times in the last 13 months...
When worried stockholders of American Motors Corp. met in Detroit last week, they were prepared for bad news about the company, which in fiscal 1956 lost $19.7 million. They were not disappointed. In the first quarter of its fiscal 1957 (October through December), the three-year-old merged hybrid (Nash-Kelvinator-Hudson) piled up a loss of $2,994,613 v. a profit of $2,512,568 in the same period the year before...
...long, often disorganized and sentimental. Yet John Fante's script, based on his novel, is full of happy touches, and Richard Quine's direction makes the most of them and of his players' talents as well. In his first Hollywood part, Salvatore Baccaloni, the Met's famed basso buffo, is a macaronical marvel. And Judy Holliday, in her funniest picture, surpasses herself as a comedienne...
...freshman team met its first collegiate competition and swam its first meet using the long distances against Dartmouth before the varsity meet. The Yardlings made the transition from cake and milk to blackbread and water with a 57-29 victory, which included three individual Harvard freshman records (see summary...