Word: weekending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THREE-DAY WEEKEND will be tried by Longren Aircraft Co. of Torrance, Calif., which believes it is first company to do so. Its 498 workers will take one three-day weekend each month, follow it with a single one-day weekend to make up for lost time. Employees suggested plan to have more time for excursions...
...League basketball activity over the weekend, Yale suffered its fifth consecutive defeat at the hands of Dartmouth, and Princeton continued to impress onlookers as the "team to beat...
...Inquirer or the prosperous Bulletin. Under its new publisher, the Daily News will go from a semi-morning paper (six editions, from midnight to noon) to one-shift afternoon publication (two editions, at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.), in competition with the Bulletin. It will drop its pallid "weekend edition" (which goes to press on Friday night), remold its politics to an "independent" line closer to Annenberg's own views. Said one Annenberg aide: "In the Delaware Valley, with 5,200,000 people, there's room for such a paper." The new management also moved swiftly...
...family musicale has gone the way of family Bible-reading, but in its place are thousands of groups that give the weekend instrumentalist a chance to play anything from bop to Bartok. Madison Avenue admen get together to play igao's jazz, Menninger Foundation psychiatrists play Bach. In Chicago a group of Northwestern professors formed a combo called "The Academic Cats," and San Francisco Christmas shoppers are currently being assaulted by the excruciating street-corner sounds made by nine businessmen in "vaguely Franco-Prussian uniforms" who bill themselves as the "Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band" ("We take out our animosities...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will sponsor the Wellesley College Experimental Theatre's production of "The Maids" in Cambridge during the weekend following the Christmas recess, the HDC announced last night...