Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Production manager for the Anderson play is Peter V. Poor '47. Sets were designed by James LaMantier '47 and are now being constructed under the direction of Paul Burggraf...
Living Legend. At 41, Frank Herrington, a hefty (198 lbs.), lighthearted medic, is a famed old China hand. When Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times was in Chungking, he described Herrington's reputation as "stupendous." Like many a U.S. country doctor, Herrington ministered to rich & poor alike; paid for treatment of a ricksha boy out of his own pocket, carried a gold watch inscribed...
What's Wrong with the Engine. But Britain's motormakers could not deny that, by U.S. lights, they still had much to learn about mass production. Hit-or-miss assembly-line techniques, short production runs and poor standardization of parts (the basis of mass production) keep unit costs up, output down. Most serious handicap of all is an antiquated supply system. Big British manufacturers depend on as many as 300 little independent firms for parts and materials. Lack of vital supplies held one recent week's production of Hillman Minxes down to eight cars-each of which...
...Poor pay is general in the French theater. The biggest stars earn no more than $40 a night; the star of the state-controlled Odeon earns $40 a month; bit parts fetch $2 or $3 a performance. The notorious morality of the French stage rests partly on the fact that many an actress resorts to classic means to keep alive...
...wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with faith rather inexplicably restored by great-grandfather's death, it comes easy enough for him to realize that when a popular novelist so wills it, there's a way even for poor boys like him to go to medical school...