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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this 30-year period, expenses have grown six-fold, from $11.6 million to $66 million. Thus, endowment funds today meet only 24 per cent of the University's costs, a smaller percentage than in previous years...
Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...
...most of the writing. Husky, broad-shouldered Gene Gleason did most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York," it was a 62-page rehash of previous Cook-Gleason investigations that added little new to the encyclopedia of New York's seamy side. The Nation piece earned Cook and Gleason an invitation to Open...
...other cemeteries, which, as a Forest Lawn Art Guide once put it, "cry out men's utter hopelessness in the face of death." To this statement Novelist Waugh somewhat tartly replied that "by far the commonest feature of other graveyards is still the Cross, a symbol in which previous generations have found more Life and Hope than in the most elaborately watered evergreen shrub...
...French, said Chaalal, have "trumped, tricked, fabricated" previous elections in Algeria. Alluding to the "facility of General de Gaulle's language," he insisted on the "integrity of the Algerian national territory." Although de Gaulle has made vague proposals for regional referenda in Algeria (concerning independence), Chaalal said that the Sahara oil resources belong to Algeria, and that the country must gain freedom "as a whole...