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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always counted on doing something useful with my education (B.A. Bryn Mawr, M.A. Radcliffe). I like to put my training to a gainful and useful purpose. It is a real privilege to work. One must be able to afford it financially--the cost of housekeepers and the income tax set up make this difficult--and also, one must be sure that one's home and children are not being slighted. I have to count on really professional help at home...
...Harvard Student Agencies has disclosed plans to set up a "trading post" for furniture, books, and small accessories. Agency officials said they want the exchange to channel the momentous flow of furniture each spring and fall...
...opposite of a call, is favored by bearish speculators. The put is an option giving the purchaser the right to sell 100 shares of stock at a set price at a future date. Last June, Filer sold a put option on Boeing Airplane Co. giving the buyer the right to sell 100 shares at 37⅝ by Dec. 2. Boeing is now quoted around 30, but the buyer of the put can still exercise it at 37⅝. After deducting the $400 costs for the put and commissions, the purchaser has a profit of about...
...pretending to hymn the heroes of the past. In this view, Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, is the prize buffoon. And when Hector, the Trojan leader, offers to stake the whole war on a single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus, whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris, grudgingly accepts the challenge-but quickly lets himself be talked out of it. When at last Ajax is chosen by lot, he and Hector spar for a minute and then agree it is really too dark to fight...
Take Me Along. O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! set to music becomes a lilting period piece, bolstered by the vaudeville virtuosity of Jackie Gleason, brightened by the acting talents of Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse...