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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman signed a contract to resume the musical career that she interrupted in December 1947. She would start practice in Manhattan next month, warm up with informal recitals next summer, step back on the concert stage next fall...
Medina, who looks like Movie Actor Adolphe Menjou, stopped rocking occasionally to advise the lawyers: "Start sawing wood." Deadpan, Judge Medina listened to a tearful outburst on racial discrimination from Counsel George Crockett. The next day when Crockett, a bespectacled Negro, said that he regretted weeping, Medina advised: "It is generally better for counsel to refrain from weeping in the courtroom . . . And I understand you promise not to do it again...
Hirsh says that there is now a U.S. total of some 3,750,000 "excessive drinkers." Another 56,000,000-odd are social drinkers, who can take it or leave it alone. About 60% of the problem drinkers are "symptomatic drinkers," i.e., they are mentally ill to start with, and drinking is a symptom, not a cause of their illness. With the other 40%, the trouble seems to start with their drinking rather than their personalities. They may be "occupational drinkers" (e.g., bartenders, salesmen, newspaper reporters), who fall into the habit because of their jobs; or "compensatory drinkers...
...freshman hockey team will get back into action on February 7 against Noble & Greenough, and the freshman basketball squad will start firing again two days later against Newman Prep...
Dudley Darling, of the news weekly's Personnel Department, will be in Cambridge Friday, February 28, the Office disclosed. Darling is looking for mid year graduates to start in the mail room at $48 a week. As they got to know the business, trainees work up into positions in promotion, advertising, circulation, and other branches of Time's non-editorial staff...