Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourth on the list is History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth-Century Continental Europe, given by Hans Kohn, professor of History at C. C. N. Y. The most popular course during the regular term, Economics 1, has an enrollment for its summer version of only...
...London party to launch a charity benefit for an actors-sponsored orphanage, Sir Laurence Olivier showed up with the ginger-tinted beard and undipped hair he let grow for his film version of Macbeth. His role: at the "Night of 100 Stars" revue July 24, Sir Laurence (in top hat, white tie and tails), with wife Vivien Leigh and Cinemactor John Mills, will trip onstage for a buck and wing...
...Senate and House will get the same allowance. Except for spot announcements, candidates for local and state legislative offices may buy no time at all. Nashville's third station, WSIX-TV, was turning down all candidates' bids for time until it decided on its own version of rationing...
...shellfish similar to an oyster," and a prophet is "one who foresees events." Globe's editors seem to have taken great care to snip out words that might enlarge children's minds-even the slow-learning children at whom such books are aimed. In the cut-down version of one novel, the not-too-difficult word dromedary is thrown out for the easier camel-sparing young readers the trouble of adding a new name to the beasts in their mental menageries...
...make them, including Wooley's own sequel, Purple People Eater Plays Earth Music, Cuban Purple People Eater (in cha cha cha rhythm), The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, Polka-Dotted Poliwampus (about a creature that eats Purple People Eaters) and Purple Herring Fresser (a Yiddish version). Disk jockeys all over the country have invited their listeners to draw the Purple People Eater (both the jockeys and listeners seemed to miss the fine point that the People Eater is not really purple but merely an eater of purple people). Composer Wooley seemed a little dazed...