Word: things
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straus 11-32 is cursed, not by a ghost or a biddy, but by a telephone. David G. Black, Raymond S. Ettlinger, Michael J. Balborstam and John B. Stadler, all freshmen occupants of the room, refer to Mr. Bell's invention as "that damn thing...
...School has been one of Harvard's biggest financial worries. Not since 1943--an abnormal wartime year--has the University's school for doctors escaped an operating deficit, and in some cases, both before and after 1943, year-end losses have reached into six figures. What make the whole thing incongruous is the fact that almost every week the papers seem to bear news of some new gift or grant to finance something the School wants...
...Birmingham, England, seems to believe that Anglican sensibilities should be shaken well at regular intervals. Last week, speaking before the Birmingham Rotary Club, he set off another of his Episcopal cannon crackers. Sterilization of "the unfit" and the killing of "defective" babies, he said, would be a fine thing for Britain...
When it was all over, Reporter Browning found it was "the hardest thing I ever tried to write. It's easy to expose people, but hard to be nice . . . They were really good...
Stacked beside it last week was Author Barnes's Home Sweet Zoo , a hasty effort to cash in on a good thing with more of the same. Just as obvious and just as funny as White Collar, Home Sweet Zoo has an even larger potential audience: the husbands and wives of the nation who have been stuck by the thorns of domestic irritation. Confident Author Barnes, who blandly assumes that White Collar will go over 500,000, thinks that Home ought to do just as well. Hopeful, but aware that the hottest fads have a saturation point, Publishers Doubleday...