Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curator Mitchell gives periodic tours and illustrated talks, especially to school children. And he hopes soon to expand the Museum's exhibition space in the Meeting-House. Those who desire to advance the Museum's work may become members for five dollars a year. The Museum also offers for sale a map, "Freedom Trails of Negro History in Boston," as well as postcards...
...keep good birth records. Dr. Belle Boone Beard, a University of Georgia anthropologist, lists 28 ways of proving age. They vary in reliability from college-entrance or graduation records to marriage, insurance and naturalization records. For former slaves like Charlie Smith, Dr. Beard recognizes ships' manifests, bills of sale, deeds and wills as at least helpful evidence...
...didn't stop what he called their "socialism," that laymen would stop contributing funds. The layman was reported to have given one million dollars to a right wing organization to make his point. But printed was a public note to the gentleman saying "The Presbyterian Church is not for sale...
...former Herald Publisher Robert Choate considered selling out to the Globe, then changed his mind. Akerson, then the Herald-Traveler's assistant publisher, joined forces with Choate and newspaper and magazine distributor Harry Garfinkle, largest Herald-Traveler stockholder, to head off the sale. Moving up to the publisher's office, Akerson hired a science and medicine expert, expanded regional coverage, removed ads from the front page and hired new, younger reporters. He reversed the Traveler's circulation decline, but he never managed to eliminate a pollyanna tone that blunted the paper's point and pertinence. Says...
...reason for all this unconventional behavior is that Arden is not making points, but people. He has nothing to prove and nothing to sell, and therefore he doesn't have to manipulate his characters into demonstrating a proof or making a sale. They are there in the stark altogether in order to make us laugh, and we laugh because they are disgusting and hypocritical, not because they are airing the writer's gags. And when any playwright gives his characters as much free reign as Arden does, he is bound to overwrite, as Arden most certainly does...