Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower-middle and working class life. (A life-sized statue of Lloyd Warner will be awarded to anyone who can tell the lower-middle from the working class without a scorecard.) In this second offering of the pre-season season at the Charles Playhouse (the season opens later this month), a group of good actors, capable of many fine strokes and perfectly caught inflections, miss just often enough to prevent our believing in the Brooklyn waterfront tenement they are trying to create...
From Waltham, Mass, came news that Brandeis University has taken on Eleanor Roosevelt, 75 next week, as a visiting lecturer. Brandeis Trustee Roosevelt will conduct a small seminar about once a month through the current school year, concentrate on the United Nations in a course called Politics 175?, International Organization...
...April 6), had a sequel last week. Daniel DiOrio, 50, president of Philadelphia's Universal Seafood Co., offered no defense when charged in U.S. District Court with having used the sodium nitrite on fish with intent to mislead and defraud. Judge Thomas C. Egan sentenced him to a month in prison, with three years on probation, fined him $2,500. Said the judge: "This caused the unfortunate and almost vicious death of a three-year-old boy and rendered his family seriously ill. The public must be protected...
...Treasury Department, which has had trouble raising the cash it needs, last week found a way to tap some new money. It issued $2 billion in four-year, ten-month notes at an interest rate of 5%, the highest since the tight-money days of 1929. The rate was so attractive that an avalanche of subscriptions poured in from small investors. Said New York's Manufacturers Trust: "It was fantastic. Everyone in the Government bond department was too busy to even go out for lunch." To help lure in individuals, the Treasury guaranteed that subscriptions...
...Jasper bids were not being paid off. Within three days the market value of Jasper's empire fell from $48 million to $33.5 million, and Jasper sadly announced that Grunwald had fled to Israel. Building Society stockholders were offered only one shilling (16?) payment on their shares a month...