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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college-wide theatre group has been short of funds and, as a result, could not back a large enough production to make a significant amount of money. The proposed committee would, to a large extent, enable a theatre group to avoid lean years caused by financial deficits from the previous season. The new committee would also allow for more efficient scheduling of production dates and rehearsal times. The third power of the committee would be the veto power (by a six out of seven vote) over any suggested program--which seems fairly inoffensive...
When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...
...general is unimaginative and suffocating. "The accounts of many German students who studied in the Soviet Union after the war agree in stating that, in a typical class lesson, the teacher would start the class by calling on two or three students to repeat the material of the previous lesson almost verbatim, and that the second half of the hour would be occupied by the teacher delivering the next section of the textbook, again following the text almost or actually verbatim...
...Soviet resident enrollment, including part-time evening students, in the last few years has been averaging less than half the number enrolled in American universities and colleges . . . Moreover, the fact that the number of resident students matriculated in the fall of 1955 showed a decrease of 5% over the previous year, while the number admitted to correspondence courses showed an increase of nearly 28%, suggests an increasing pressure forcing the Soviet government to channel the greatest possible number of the student-age population into the labor force...
...adored. So on Monday night, Dec. 3, 1928, The Voice of Firestone crackled out over 41 stations of the NBC network, between Physical Culture Prince and The A. & P. Gypsies. Unlike its sister shows and hundreds to follow, Voice survived. Last week, with selections from each of its five previous five-year-anniversary programs, it became the first network show ever to go into its 30th consecutive year...