Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JAMES P. WARD...
Montgomery Ward's Board Chairman Sewell Avery last week neatly answered charges by Challenger Louis Wolfson that he is stingy with dividends. Though Ward's sales in the first nine months of 1954 slumped 13½% and profits $4.8 million (to $21 million), the company's directors voted an extra $1.75 dividend for the 67,055 stockholders. The regular quarterly dividend rate will be boosted to 75? instead of 50? per share, the first such increase since 1936. In fiscal 1954, Ward^s dividends will total $4 per share, 50? more than last year...
...last week was the resulting volume: Cracks in the Cloister (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). The anonymous author, who signs himself Brother Choleric, has never taken an hour's instruction in art, draws only for fun, and carries on the regular priestly duties of preaching and teaching. His characters in cloister clothing are crabbed, crotchety, pompous and appealing. Their shoptalk might be taken from a good public school or a business office, except that it is heavily clerical, e.g., a monk's full prostration before his bishop brings the comment: "Rather ham, don't you think?", and one catty...
...rest of the play is devoted to Miss Wynter's attempts to seduce the doctor. It is a chess-game second act which sees her carrying the attack, leading with her queenly figure, lounging on the couch, or gently caressing his knee while he tries, unsuccessfully to ward off her advances. Vincent Price, of course, is merely a pawn, and he realizes it. His defeat is inevitable. In a stunning move the pawn is rooked, and the two disappear into a bedroom for what should logically be the end of the game...
That safety looked increasingly imposing when the Elis moved 53 yards for a touchdown at the start of the third period. A 28-yard pass from Bob Brink to Al Ward set up the score, and a short flip from Brink to Campbell accounted...