Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During its ten weary weeks, The Hague conference had often seemed close to failure. The Indonesians had wanted as much independence as possible, the Dutch had wanted to retain as much sovereignty as possible. But eventually the Dutch and the Indonesian delegates grew to trust and understand each other. One weekend motor trip to Namur, in Belgium, helped to break the ice; Indonesia's Premier Mohammed Hatta and the Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories, Johan van Maarseveen, reached some important decisions chatting in their car. Explained Van Royen: "It doesn't pay to try to be too clever...
Ernie Byfield, Chicago hotelman and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn), reached 60, took a dim view of the bistro business: "Nightclubs are like gold mines. For every ten bucks you put in, one buck is extracted . . . Old nightclubs and old streetwalkers are the same. The older they get, the less money they take...
When the Chicago Black Hawks had won, 4-1 (and ten stitches had been taken in the first citizen's head), Reardon and Gravelle were led off to the police station, booked and released under $200 bail. Next week when the Canadiens play in Chicago again, they will have a chance to tell the judge all about it. Charges: assault with deadly weapons...
...Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with a crackpot list of "white supremacy" strings attached (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, with $9,314 in the till from well-wishers, Jefferson had enlisted a special fundraiser. He was Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, a Pacific task force commander in World War II and onetime chief of Navy public...
...title of satirist. Insisted Miss Hokinson: "I see no reason for people to regard my ladies superciliously ... I [have always] considered them bright, sensible people and agreed with almost everything they said." Her fans had not seen the last of the Hokinson girls; The New Yorker still had ten unpublished cartoons...