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...debacles played in cheap downtown auditoriums that we, growing up in the days of its decline, have come to associate with the word vaudeville. We tend to forget, too, that such modern idols as the Marx Brothers and Jack Benny all started like that, painfully and miserably, travelling on second-class night coach, starving and playing to jeering audiences in remote Midwestern ghosttowns. Vaudeville was the brutally hard world in which many older screen comedy celebrities cut their teeth...
Under the proposed increase, the cost of mailing a first-class letter weighing up to 1 oz. would, as expected, rise from 10? to 13?; each additional ounce would cost 11?. The lowly post card would go up from 7? to 10?. Under the new schedule, the cost of second-class mail used to ship newspapers and magazines will go up 22.1%. That jump comes on top of other second-class rate rises totaling 127% since 1971-and poses an economic threat for many publications. Third-rate bulk mail, under the new rate schedule, will climb 23.9%, and parcel post...
...Island, now in Boston for their last performances in the United States. "Actor" is not recognized by apartheid South Africa as a possible profession for blacks, so Kani and Ntshona, the best actors you will have a chance to see on stage for a long time, remain second-class citizens, despite a three-year international tour that has garnered universal rave reviews and the 1975 Tony award for best actor...
While the Postal Rate Commission rejected Wenner's proposals, it came up with other recommendations, among them one that would raise the second-class rates so crucial to publishers and their readers by 42% over the next four years. That new increase, which the Postal Service is expected to adopt this week, comes on top of other second-class rate rises totaling 127% since 1971. While the latest jump is far less than the 122% proposed by Wenner, the increase-not to mention others that are certain to come along between now and 1980-poses an economic threat...
Voyeuristic Shudder. Bad times became a way of life. The Muslim Ottoman Empire reduced Armenians to second-class citizens; then, as Asia Minor lurched toward "modernity," Turkey began its series of oppressions. They ended with lethal, unprovoked sweeps across the hills, torturing and killing no one knows how many millions. In 1910, a recent Oxford graduate named Arnold Toynbee meticulously described the "fiendish" mutilations and abasements. As late as 1918 Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, protested the mass killings of Armenian women and children. The Turkish Minister of the Interior gave a blanket reply to such plaintiffs: "Those...