Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bronze tablet marked the site of the birth 69 years ago of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five...
...made careful note of what he called "the well-known attitude of some less developed countries, according to which the Western world is actually obliged to pay for the advancement of their economies, out of its own pocket, so to speak, and entirely without return." Under this kind of arrangement, said Abs, "the U.S., when still an undeveloped country, might also have demanded from Europe free contributions for industrialization and similar purposes...
...first earnings reports for 1957's third quarter showed that companies were still making record profits. American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines both posted new highs. IBM with a nine-month net before taxes of $130 million, some $25 million more than in 1956. Taking note of stock-market jitters, the staff of the congressional Joint Economic Committee advised businessmen not to be unduly concerned over recent stock price movements. "Such movements in the past have not proved to be good indicators of prospective business conditions...
...this cheery note that Perri is introduced to the hard facts a squirrel is up against in the world of Walt Disney. She is mauled by a goshawk, ripped up by a weasel, and almost torn to pieces by a marten-a lean and eager individual with a bright red tongue that lolls out in an unpleasant way. A forest fire burns down her house, and she winds up in the middle of a beaver pond, riding on the back of a bobcat. On top of all this, Perri will probably not get much sympathy from the critics...
...several ways. It showed its interest in contemporary literature, and it lost one of the men contributing most towards its growth and development. On April 1, 1950, Francis O. Matthiessen jumped to his death from the twelfth floor of the Manger Hotel in Boston, saying in a suicide note that "I am exhausted. . . I find myself terribly oppressed by the present tensions...