Word: works
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cathedral. "The toying parlor pink," he said, "must show his true color, red or not red . . . There is no room for pastel shades." Later, Cardinal Spellman, who heard the sermon, modified the interpretation a bit: Catholics who must read the Worker and other Communist literature for their work would be allowed to continue doing so, if they applied to church authorities for special permission...
...been destroyed, the altar smashed, gaping holes torn in the circular ceiling of the chapel. On behalf of the Benedictines, Catholic authorities refused to take the church back without full reparations, and put the damage between $300,000 and $500,000. This week a joint commission began trying to work out a satisfactory settlement...
Some 200 students and teachers have been hard at work all month. The students, who come from 20 states, had paid about $250 tuition apiece for the six-week summer session; the teachers, many of whom play for northern symphony orchestras, got their expenses only. At week's end, the hard work paid off in a lively concert by the yo-piece student-teacher band before a crowd of 1,200. Main event of the evening: Grieg's Concerto in A Minor, with Guest Pianist Eugene List, the ex-G.I. who played for Truman and Stalin...
...took a job as salesgirl in a Manhattan candy shop. After the Christmas rush, she went to Miami to visit her aunt. A nightclub owner heard her singing with the rest of her party, offered her a job. A scared 17, she answered: "I have to go back to work." But work at the candy shop was never the same again. Mindy quit, and her parents gave her a year to get somewhere in show business...
...Manhattan this week Philco Corp. came out with its version of the built-in aerial. It would work, said Philco engineers, in about 80% of present-day receiving locations. Just in case the saving on installation costs was not enough, Philco at the same time cut prices sharply. Sample result: last year a consolette with a 72-sq.-in. picture cost $439.50 plus installation fee; this year a full console with a 97-sq.-in. picture cost...