Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the week to be spent in Cambridge, where M.I.T. will be toured as well as Harvard, the Experiment's group of Russians will live with rural families in upper New York state and will visit Philadelphia, Washington and New York City. In Philadelphia, the emphasis will be an American labor and labor unions, while in the other cities the Soviet students will be chiefly tourists...
...learn the writer's craft, he ran away from a Washington, D.C. high school to tour with Orson Welles (a truant officer brought him home from Philadelphia); he put in a couple of years in stock, went to Yale Drama School. Then he moved hopefully to Broadway. "As a playwright," he remembers, "I achieved the rank of hotel night clerk at 22, nightward attendant in a psychiatric hospital at 25, a magazine copy boy at 28." It was while he was a copy boy (at TIME) that his play Bullfight became an off-Broadway...
...Negro of melancholy mien named Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, 33, and it is largely responsible for putting the San Francisco Giants on a tottering perch at the head of the National League. Last week Sad Sam chomped morosely on his customary toothpick and turned a sullen eye on the Philadelphia Phillies. His crackling curve ball seemed about to eviscerate righthanded batters before breaking sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When he was through, the Giants had won 9-1, and Jones had scored...
...COMMUTER FARES will be started by Allegheny Airlines between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh at reduced rates if CAB approves. Passengers will not be permitted to make reservations, must carry own baggage but will pay only $13 v. present $20.30 one-way fare. Allegheny also plans to offer ten-ticket books at 15% discount...
Milwaukee 8, Philadelphia...