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Christie's attitude toward audiences on performance days, however, is stiff and strict: no one may enter the auditorium after the overture has begun; evening dress is a must, however embarrassing to midafternoon commuters. Says he: "I refuse to pamper them." One concession: a 90-minute interval after Act II for dinner in nearby dining halls, where hungry operagoers can order chicken, Scotch salmon or cold lobster, buy choice wines from London caterers...
...Connecticut's movie-profiled Republican John Davis Lodge paraded to the State House in midafternoon, found that the Democrat-controlled Senate had refused to show up for the swearing-in as prescribed by law and custom. After a corps of lawyers had scoured the Constitution and legal precedent, Lodge decided he could do without the rebellious Democrats, was sworn in before only the Republican House just nine minutes before midnight...
...Greatest." Bunche insisted on taking Mrs. Daughton's report with a grain of salt. Not until midafternoon, when he received a telegram of notification from two members of the Nobel Committee, was he fully convinced that he had become the first Negro to win the Peace Prize.* The Peace Prize Committee, made up of five members selected...
...below), U.S. commander in Taejon, had sent a message to the commander of his reserve, calling for help to hold the southern rail and highway escape routes open. The reserve commander never got the message; it showed up, hours later, at another headquarters far to the rear. By midafternoon the Communist flank attacks had cut the escape routes...
Suddenly, in midafternoon, a surge of buying began, simply because the stock prices began to look like bargains. By day's end the market had recovered almost all of its losses. Far into the night clerks totted up the day's transactions of 4,860,000 shares, the greatest since Sept. 5, 1939. The number of individual issues traded (1,260 out of nearly 1,500 listed) broke all records. The market kept rising the next day, but it was still so nervous that any wisp of news set it churning. On Thursday a new wave of selling...