Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally a few brave souls, among them, this writer, try for a local show. Then, if there is something really tweedy on, the little women want to swarm to the Brattle, where the debutantes rub elbows with the intellectuals, and respectability survives...
...typewriter, Streeter calls for a gradual reduction of the Government's subsidy program, an increase in vigorous, quality-conscious farmer-cooperatives to the point where they can influence prices. Says Carroll Streeter, invoking the same rugged independence that has made the Farm Journal prosper: "What we want for the farmer is less support in return for more freedom...
...cutback in movies at all," says Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's boss, Sol C. Siegel, "is that we will not make pictures for the sake of making pictures any more." TV has killed the routine movie for most people (who can watch all the routine movies they want to on TV), forced Hollywood to concentrate on blockbusters-the big-screen, big-star, big-color extravaganzas that often cost upwards of $3,000,000. The blockbusters have no trouble luring people away from TV, are the favorites of the drive-in theaters, which have grown from 820 to more than...
...Place to Hide. In Cheektowaga, N.Y., after $10,000 was found in a paper bag in a vacant lot, the money was claimed by Mary Panek, 65, who explained: "I was going away for a few days and didn't want to leave it in the house...
Dean von Stade termed the proposal a "fine idea," and Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics, found the proposal "reasonably appealing." Kaysen said, however, that other possible programs, like the Bursary Student program at Yale, ought to be considered. He cautioned that "we don't want to go too far with course reduction and throw courses out the window...