Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pocket to Pocket. In the fine print of documents signed by applicants for car financing by C.I.T. is a clause alloting all policy refunds to the finance company, Universal C.I.T., a sister company to Service Fire. So, said Myerson, "if you want to determine that we've overcharged, we'll give it back to the finance company." In other words, if the insurance commissioners demanded refunds, Service Fire would take them out of one C.I.T. pocket and put them in another...
Died. Helen Richardson Dreiser, 61, widow of Novelist Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie), author of My Life with Dreiser; of a heart attack, after being bedridden since 1951: in Portland...
...Smith girls, quarantined since the start of the term because of polio in western Massachusetts, have fallen so far behind their sister schools, officals of the college have decided to lift the ban. Even the discovery of three suspected cases of polio at nearby Amherst, and the continuation of quarantines there and at Mt. Holyoke did not influence the decision...
...Sister Eileen (Columbia) has a slightly tentative air about it, as if no one concerned ever quite believed the picture was going to be released. A musical remake of the 1942 movie (starring Rosalind Russell) that was, in turn, adapted from the 1940 Broadway play based on the humorous New Yorker stories by Ruth McKenney, the film must inevitably face comparison with Broadway's Wonderful Town, the hit musical (also starring Rosalind Russell) that derived from the same stories. The comparison is devastatingly in favor of Wonderful Town...
Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...