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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses, the most popular is one called Geography and Contemporary World Problems. Many of the students liked it so well that they began bringing along wives and friends to take part in the seminar discussions, which sometimes ran at least an hour overtime. Says Professor Joseph Williams: "I seem to have half the graduate business school enrolled in this course. They know a lot about business but not much about the world around them." Last week Williams felt that the situation was changing. As one business specialist proudly told him: "I think that now I can make some sound judgments...
Economics 1 continues as the College's most popular course. Six hundred students are enrolled this term in the perennial leader, according to Registrar Sargent Kennedy...
...mustache) and his ability to handle such firearms as Earp's long-barreled Buntline Special with authentic eélan-he is perhaps the only regular Western type on TV who aims his gun before firing. And O'Brian's good looks make the show so popular with women that Procter & Gamble, one of his sponsors, is happily planning to add a commercial for a ladies' shampoo...
...York's drama mill and the enormous expense of putting a Broadway show on the boards has forced Broadway into dependence on temporary "hits" that rapidly draw large audiences and then fade into oblivion before next month's epic. A show that does not promise to be immediately popular with a mass audience is completely impractical. Few can afford to pay $12 or more for a pair of tickets to a show that hasn't been predigested and approved. For example, Candide recently closed to a loss of nearly half a million dollars. On the other hand, Take a Giant...
...Congregational Church deserves full credit for a generally successful production of A Tree on the Plains. For the folk opera, librettist Paul Horgan has fashioned a somewhat naive but effective story about farmers in the American Southwest, and the music by Ernst Bacon is simple, combining hymntunes, folk and popular styles into a pleasant conglomeration...