Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard University associate professor is writing plays. "The Agamemnon" was printed in 1952 in "Botteghe Oscure," a magazine run by an Italian nobleman who lives on a "street of dark shops." Then the play was published in book form, and it will be produced in New York in the fall...
...picture of confidence, a Manhattan lawyer named Bill Shea announced formation of a third major league: the Continental, which plans to start play in 1961, has already signed up New York, Houston, Denver, Toronto, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Shea's biggest-problem: getting big-league players. But Congress is strongly pressing the majors to cooperate and Shea is asking for what he loosely terms "ready access" to their manpower pools...
...creation of Versailles, with imported French food, wine, clothing and actresses-climaxed the extravagances of the Gilded Age and turned the harsh glare of publicity on the free-spending practices of insurance companies; in Saratoga Springs. N.Y. Spurred by public indignation, a committee of the New York state legislature investigated Equitable, pressured young Hyde to quit his job as vice president. Incensed. Hyde moved to France, where he settled for the real Versailles (he restored Madame de Pompadour's home), vowed never to return to the U.S., but he kept his citizenship and hurried home when the Nazis marched...
LONG-DISTANCE PHONE rates will be cut 5? to 25? per call in mid-September to carry out FCC order for $50 million overall rate slash by Bell System. Sliding-scale reductions will be greater for longer distances, especially for calls over 675 miles, e.g., New York-Chicago for first three minutes will cost $1.45 v. current $1.50 rate; New York-Los Angeles $2.25 v. current...
...fascinating example of how the vanity firms work was provided by New York's Exposition Press, one of the leaders in the field, during FTC hearings two years ago. Up to a point, Exposition-which has since entered into a consent order promising to mend its ways-went through the routine of a regular publishing house. But the difference between what an editor reported to Publisher Edward Uhlan and what Uhlan wrote to the author-in persuading him that it was worth his money to have his book published-was both funny and pathetic. Items from the FTC hearings...