Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nancy Walker, former lady taxi-driver, has come a long way from the tough little tyke of her earlier musicals. In "Along Fifth Avenue" a new revue now in its final week here, she shows considerable development and improvement in her clowning and has acquired finesse--or is it moderation--in her delivery that is going to make her the funniest woman on the American stage...
...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...
...Other Side of Profits. "In what way?" shot back Wilson. "It's rotten business. It only makes 1.2% net." G.E.'s rate of profit on civilian goods-7.2% on $1.3 billion in sales-was not enough, said Wilson, to pay for expansion and to protect G.E. against a sudden sales slump...
...T.W.A. said that it would soon start an inexpensive "skycoach" service between Kansas City and Los Angeles, if CAB approves. The one-way fare would be $59.50, one-third less than the present air fare and well under the Pullman cost ($77.30). Capital Airlines, which started a New York-Chicago "coach" service in November, has had to add extra flights to satisfy the demand...
Boylston and Union reading rooms are now closed. Boylston will give way to an expansion of Far Eastern studies, and the Union reading room will be turned over for other freshman activities...