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...Throw Them Out." CBS Chairman William S. Paley had not even gaveled his overflow audience to order in Manhattan before a woman stockholder in red-feathered hat and raffish earrings got up to make a loud complaint: she had, she said, been issued a subpoena to keep quiet at the meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey...
...these plans are carried out, the brick dormitories will not accommodate as many students as they now do, Mrs. Deane A. Lord, director of the Radcliffe News Office, said that any overflow from the brick dormitories would be put in the brick apartment building at 124 Walker...
...striving for perfection, Mrs. Hurst has made Brook overflow its banks. Profits have risen from $55,000 in 1955 to more than half a million dollars last year. In addition to its main office in London, the bureau has opened 46 branches, five of them last year. The Hurst chain's overseas offices in New York, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia, do a two-way business, finding English secretaries for American and Australian firms, American and Australian secretaries for English firms...
Scoot told an overflow crowd in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room that "our system of government depends on the two party system for a continuing dialogue on public policy, but when we have what appears to be a one-and-u-half party system, the dialogue lags...
Even such a shining demigod as Bill Bradley tarnishes his splendor when he guards Williams. Bradley proved that he could scuffle with the best of them before an overflow crowd here two weeks ago. "He's one of the roughest players around," Williams said flatly in an interview yesterday...