Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Choreography for the show is under the direction of Elizabeth Theiler '60, and Debra A. Cole '59 will design the sets. A nine-piece orchestra will play for the performances...
Allowing itself a brief lapse into professional sentiment, the New York Times took editorial note of the end of the 19-day newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...
...nine dailies broke the silence with editions that tried, in one way or another, to make up for lost days. The Daily News brought comic-strip buffs up to date on neglected episodes in the lives of Orphan Annie and Smilin' Jack, handed out free copies of undistributed Sunday-edition comic supplements. The Herald Tribune, which had to wait for the end of the strike to publish an inside story, published it: the resignation of Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid (TIME, Dec. 15), who had postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects...
Nothing could be done for Technician Kelley. He had received between 6,000 and 18,000 rem (roentgen equivalent man) of radiation, at least ten times the dose that is generally considered deadly. Nine hours after the accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...
Cordiner shares his responsibilities with an executive office composed of President Robert Paxton, 56, and 13 vice presidents. The heads of the nine service divisions (e.g., accounting, management consultation, marketing) report directly to Cordiner, bear the chief burden of long-range planning and research. To Paxton, himself an old operating man, report such operating-group executives as Arthur F. Vinson. 51, head of G.E.'s important heavy industrial goods section, James H. Goss, 51, head of consumer products, and Cramer V. LaPierre, 54, boss of defense and atomics...