Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sometimes the headlines in the papers frighten here, and this is one of those times. DOCTOR SAM TELLS OF TUSSLE; REDS HOLD INNOCENT SOLDIERS; HEMINGWAY RECOVERS FROM CRASH WOUNDS, they say. Virginia lowers her spectacles and quivers. She had always thought there was a Santa Claus, ever since that nice editor answered here letter, but maybe...
Further, most financial businesses have to be effectively operated to make money under current conditions. The balmy days of the 1920's when the personable college graduate with good contracts and a nice smile could make good money as a customers' man are over. Salesmanship and contacts still are useful in finance, but financial business needs men with more assets than these. As other doubtless will write in this edition, there are excellent opportunities for men coming into finance jobs today. But the excellent opportunities are for good man, well trained, who can product results ino a competitive...
...never become quite respectable. The fact that the first game on record (between Latrobe, Pa. and Jeannette, Pa. in August 1895) was sponsored by the Latrobe Y.M.C.A. impressed no one. Professional football, in its early days, had the social standing of snooker pool-it might be legal, but no nice person would bother with...
Twelve years ago he was a foundryman in a Detroit war plant. Today Yerby lives on the French Riviera with his tiny, light-skinned wife Flora and their four children. When he is not whipping out profitable prose in his villa garden in Cimiez, Nice. Author Yerby goes skin-diving in the Mediterranean, skiing in the Alps or whizzing off in his Jaguar XK 120 to attend sports-car races...
...story: Adam Calhorn Shaw (Edmund Purdom) has everything a young man could want-prominent family, imminent fame, eminent income. Two young women (Linda Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but his attributes, too. Linda is a nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...