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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More than 15 million Americans have more than $30 billion invested in pensions and retirement trust funds, which were unknown...
...could such a contradiction of qualities be brought together in one presence on the stage? Julie found the answer in a remarkable statue of Joan by an unknown medieval sculptor -"the figure of a sturdy, stocky girl," as Director Joseph Anthony describes it, "with thick hands, almost like a man's, laid together heavily in prayer. Her head is slightly raised -but demanding, not beseeching, God to hear. Her shoulders are hunched in heavy, earthbound determination. She has a natural concentration, like an animal's. Eye and body and brain are united without strain in simple existence...
...Unknown Soldier. Everything Kipling touched turned to brass. While more sensitive writers shopped about for rare metals, he jiggled the coppers of common knowledge in his pocket. "Shillin' a day, Bloomin' good pay," he wrote of the British soldier, long before other English writers had acknowledged the existence of the uniform that guarded them while they slept. Kipling had been sniped at once in the Khyber Pass and since then had become the spokesman for all men who have nothing but a uniform between themselves and death...
...effectively, Connecticut's Grace-New Haven Hospital invited doctors to submit blood samples from suspected victims. Said the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation: A test developed in 1947, then only 50% accurate, has now been simplified and refined to 90% accuracy. Basis of the test: for an as yet unknown reason, mixing blood from an arthritic patient with specially treated sheep blood causes the sheep-blood cells to clump...
...needle again. Tormented by his cravings, he is also tormented by the brutal, scrounging pushers who can supply the drugs. His well-meaning brother knows of his vice and has given him money for it; his unhappy wife does not know and can only blame some unknown woman for his neglect and his absences from home. Out of such a situation emerges a highly theatrical problem play...