Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). New York-the Day People, the Night People visits some of Manhattan's nifty nooks and creepy crannies. Guide: Walter Winchell...
Ernest Hemingway wrote The Killers before breakfast one morning in 1927, cabled it that day from Madrid to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Scribner's Magazine in New York, and has never changed one of its 2,000 words. Seen through the eyes of Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells-mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue-about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story...
...Becoming a good teacher," said a veteran New York City public-school teacher, "has more in common with the process of becoming a good boxer or a combat soldier [than with medicine]. You do not have a subdued and cooperative patient; you have a mixed bag of restless unknown quantities in one room, no two of whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able...
...total number of U.S. stockholders receiving such handy budget balancers is also at a new high. The latest New York Stock Exchange study showed 12,490,000 individual shareholders of record, up from 8,630,000 in 1956. The number of stockholders is now bigger than the number of factory workers. One in every four U.S. households gets a dividend check or checks v. one in seven only seven years ago. To keep the checks going, U.S. corporations are declaring dividends at a rate approaching $14 billion a year, against $9 billion...
Born. To Air Force Lieut. General William E. Hall, 52, Commanding General, Continental Air Command, and Marguerite ("Maggie") Higgins Hall, 39, Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune: a second child, first daughter; in Washington. Name: Linda Marguerite. Weight...