Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon is particular about his shop hours; he doesn't like to unlock before noon. "There isn't much happening around here in the morning. I used to open up quite a bit in the morning, but the only person who came to see me then was T. S. Eliot's sister-in-law." Afternoons, however, the Grolier Book Shop becomes a community haven and meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens...
...only person who resisted actively this morning, trying to seize a paratrooper's rifle, found himself quickly knocked to the ground, covered with blood, and at the mercy of four soldiers with drawn bayonets...
...Manitoba), has headed the University of Toronto since 1945. There he got a reputation for phrasemaking and outspoken intolerance of parents who send their children to college "just to prove there's nothing wrong with them." He told incoming students: "If you have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker and cheaper to take a course in salesmanship. If you spend your spare time playing bridge, you will be a good bridge player; if you spend it in reading, discussing...
Pretty soon he encounters the second person of the problem, a hip-flicking little hoyden who calls herself Eve Black, and who likes nothing better than to get thoroughly gassed-and leave the other Eve, who still has no suspicion of her dark sister's existence, with the hangover. So it goes, until one day Eve Black reports that she is having spells, too, and shortly thereafter-look out, here comes another psychic sidekick. This one calls herself Jane, and seems to be a normal, healthy girl-a sort of emotional median between the other...
...Murrow also returned last week for his fifth season as the reassuring Peeping Tom of Person to Person. It was perhaps TV's best kiddie show yet. At the Bob Kennedys' 200-year-old estate in McLean, Va., young (2) son Dave did the scene-stealing by bawling obligingly all the way through Ed's conversation with the four other Kennedy youngsters. And in the show's other half, CBS's electronic gremlins blacked out some of mournful Hollywood Singer Julie London's more breathless moments while projecting Julie's seven-year...