Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual sureseater formula is simple: give moviegoers what they rarely get in standard cinemansions-a single feature, no popcorn, well-behaved next-seat neighbors, super-comfortable seats and, most important, high-quality pictures from Britain, France, Italy and sometimes even Hollywood. Some 70 of the U.S. sureseaters show this kind of film exclusively; the rest, as often as they can get them...
Crowell is the same publisher who brought out Cheaper by the Dozen (TIME,, June 13), another tale of life with father, which was a surprise bestseller last spring. With full publicity behind it, Riot could easily sell almost as well. Yet the book has little of Dozen's natural air of comedy in it; it relies on carefully measured doses of laughing gas, slightly under pressure...
Bald, stocky, 59-year-old Doc Hill had tried almost everything else on the island of Hawaii before Dible got him into flowers five years ago. Hill's first job, in 1913, was selling eyeglasses to Japanese plantation hands on Hawaii at $3 apiece. He did so well that he opened a jewelry store, later branched out to finance, real estate, autos (he has the General Motors franchise on Hawaii), movie theaters (he owns ten) and utilities (he is president and principal stockholder of Hilo Electric Light Co., Ltd.). When Hill's wife started shipping a few orchids...
...group, along with several more Advocate editors, had been fighting for a more down-to-earth approach, while others--particularly the present pro-tem President Lloyd S. Gilmour '51 and Pegasus Donald A. Hall '51--had defended the Advocate's policy of running short stories, criticism, and poetry, as well as articles...
Remember the sweet kick to that Briggs Hall kiss Saturday night? Well, bub, a chemist put it there...