Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million supplement to the World Bank, IFC would lend to private enterprisers rather than governments. The President will also ask Congress to lighten taxation on U.S. firms doing business in Latin America, thus encouraging more investment there. ¶ Later in January, in a major speech on TV, Milton Eisenhower will make an "encouraging appraisal" of the effects to date of the recommendations that he made late in 1953, after a swing through South America. The President's brother had urged 1) stockpiling of basic commodities to stabilize the economies of producing nations, 2) grants of food in emergencies...
...February Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat will make an unhurried good-will tour of Central America. Tentative itinerary: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. Milton Eisenhower hopes to accompany the Nixons at least part...
Except for one possible change, in the number eight spot, where Grayson Murphy, who may not be completely recovered from the measles, this is the lineup that will face the Green; 1, Heckscher; 2, Paschal; 3, Wister (C); 4, Bob Brown; 5, Cal Place; 6, Bancroft Wheeler 7, Pete Milton; 8, Murphy or Roger Cortes; 9, Martin Heckscher...
...Buick Division of General Motors, currently sponsoring Milton Berle on NBC, announced that it had signed Gleason to a $7,000,000 contract to begin on CBS next season, with an option after two years for a third year at $4,000,000.* This fat deal, Gleason admits, was in the works for some time. In fact, NBC was in on the dickering, too. "All you gotta do," says Gleason, "is rub two networks together and you get a fire." When the figures were set. Jackie recalled: "First they said $6,000,000 and my mouth dropped open. They mistook...
Died. Robert Edmond Jones, 66, dean of U.S. stage designers; in Milton, N.H. A student of Max Reinhardt, Jones became famous overnight in 1915 with his settings (in "colors as loud as gongs") for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. In more than 200 subsequent productions (among the most famous: The Green Pastures, Redemption, most of the plays of Eugene O'Neill), he projected the thoughts of playwrights in vivid, interpretative settings which were "not pictures, but images," vigorously rejected the traditional idea of stage design as simple decoration. "A setting," he wrote, "is a presence, a mood...