Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which this week goes into its second printing. Now president of Cleveland's famed Hearing and Speech Center and a trustee of the American Hearing Society, Mrs. Heiner for the past 13 years has campaigned for a better understanding of the problems faced by the five million-odd deaf people in the U.S. She has promoted schools and clinics for the training of deaf children, advocated better job placement, arranged for special hearing-aid wiring in theaters, concert halls and churches...
...seven days, the 1,200-odd representatives of 40 U.S. and Canadian denominations talked and listened to each other. In the end, they firmly rejected parochial schools. The council recommended: 1) that Protestant parochial schools be discouraged as "a serious threat" to public education and democracy; 2) that the cultural and nonsectarian aspects of religion be taught through such subjects as history and literature in the public school curriculum; 3) that weekday religious education on a "released time" basis be continued...
Quartet (Rank; Eagle Lion), British cinema's talent-studded gift to Somerset Maugham on his 75th birthday, is a neatly packaged film based on four unrelated Maugham short stories. Expertly scripted by R. C. Sherriff (Odd Man Out, This Above All, etc.) and urbanely introduced by Author Maugham himself, it also makes a handsomely mounted gift for moviegoers who don't insist on all the Hollywood formulas...
Radcliffe will sponsor a weekend Arts Conference for students from 100-odd colleges next October, if a project sketched at the Cliffe's Cedar Hill meeting last night wins approval this term...
...rosy annual report. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane (variously known to gagsters as "We, the People," "The Thundering Herd," "All This and Fenner, Too") did 9.4% of the round lot (blocks of 100 shares) trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 1948, and 12.9% of the odd-lot (less than 100 shares) business. It made a net profit of $1,704,513. This was nearly three times as much as it made in 1947. For Merrill Lynch's 84 partners it meant an average profit...