Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...print] a headline from the Providence Bulletin over a caption that reads "Hopeful Headline.':, 'We don't want to scare advertisers' "... The story upon which the headline was based, and which apparently was not read by your compiler of headlines, was an ironic one, and so was the head. The jobs referred to were four in number, at the Rhode Island Development Council, at salaries ranging from...
CHOCOLATE, 16, comes from a poor home, is-like many gang boys-illiterate, avoids the subway because he cannot read the station names, is usually half-drunk, has tremendous heart...
...Dictator Proposes. A party official read off the routine resignation of the old government. Then old (77) President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov-just re-elected to another term in his largely honorific post -strode briskly to the rostrum and took his stand behind the massed mikes. Deputies leaned forward, earphones clamped on their heads. In the expectant silence, the whirring of movie cameras could be heard...
...TIME, May 13)-probed the motives of both doctor and patient, told a forum of 1,000 physicians in Washington that they should abandon the "father image" role of the old-style family doctor. Dichter advised: "Accept the fact that today's patient has grown up and can read current medical articles," and treat him more as an equal. This goes for fees, too: the doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees tied to how much their leg or their life means to them...
Just then a well-known producer (Henry Fonda) walks in, and she gives him the old cold cream. "I reverence the things you've done in the theater, Mr. Easton ... I read La Dame Souriante in French, and I admire your courage in doing it." Easton (edging away): "I'm sorry. Miss Lovelace, but we are fully cast." But a minute later she bursts into his office to say, "Thank you for taking such a personal interest," and while she's at it, she takes time to bestow her condescension on a famed actress (Joan Greenwood...