Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whiz, TIME, how do you expect us little guys to pump gas all day and sleep well at night when we read about threats like that Romney character? Fire and brimstone on the Rambler! I say, "Man the gas pumps...
...mission to the Soviet Union "in the near future." Last week the Russians gave a rude shock to British businessmen whose hopes had been roused by windy Communist talk of a $2.5 billion rise in East-West trade. Before a British commercial group in London, a Soviet trade expert read off a blunt message from Nikita Khrushchev: "Countries that are interested in increasing their exports to the Soviet Union should increase their purchases from it." Most of what the Russians are willing to sell (e.g., tinned salmon), the British are unwilling to buy. Britain already imports more from the Russians...
...pretty, blue-eyed servant girl had found friends, a good job, and happiness under Austrian freedom. But last week 19-year-old Smilja Srca was ordered by the Austrian government to return to Yugoslavia. Leaving her mistress a thank-you note in a language the lady could not read, Smilja told the family children goodbye, crept out into the Alpine night and put a bullet through her head. She survived, but the bullet destroyed the optic nerve connections of both eyes, and she will never see again...
...Cummings '15, prominent American poet, will read his poems, and make certain incidental remarks this Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Cummings is the author of Xaipe, The Enormous Room, and many other works...
...good deal was riding on this attempt at repertory. Its failure indicates that Americans (there is no reason to suppose that Bostonians are unique) do not want good theatre, and will not take it when it is offered. It will be hard now to read the success of a good play as indicating anything except that an audience has been stampeded by hit psychology, coaxed by affection for a favorite star, dragged by dumb loyalty to a particular critic, or tempted by the possibility of sexual excitement...