Word: briefed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted to send an investigatory mission. The new Minister of the Congo, Maurice van Hemelrijck, a longtime critic of Belgian complacency and the author of a long-awaited proposal for the Congo's gradual emancipation that is to be presented to Parliament this week, gave his countrymen a brief but pointed lecture. "We have been on the border of catastrophe," he said. "We are not without fault. We could not wait so long without punishment before letting the Congolese know of our intentions...
Students interested in taking the course, given by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, must fill out a brief questionnaire asking field of concentration, home town, possible career choices, job experience, and other outside interests. The course staff hopes to have a wide variety of interests and backgrounds represented in each section...
Allowing itself a brief lapse into professional sentiment, the New York Times took editorial note of the end of the 19-day newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...
...vehicles for this sort of "scientific advertising," Supersalesman Culligan is making the most of NBC's "hotline" service for handling fast-breaking news. NBC's Stardust series will dot the broadcasting day with brief appearances by big show-business names-Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope, George Gobel. Analysis Stardust is a projected series that will put top newsmen among the other stars. The Image series (audio documentaries) will be an ambitious collection of documentaries starting with Image: Russia, a 1½-hour-a-night, month-long study of the Soviet Union, "authenticated" by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine...
...baby" lying in bed. He is 19 years old, and so fat that he has "groups of toes like uncooked sausages." Baby lives with his neurotic Mom; they rove from city to city, endlessly drowning their despondency in capsules of phenobarbital. The Sleep describes how Baby takes a brief waddle down Broadway, stumbles half-comatose into an automobile, weaves back home unscathed, and collapses into the miseries of natural sleep (he dreams that a fat gypsy squaw castrates him with a silver-bladed bread knife). Finally, he swallows the magic "pheeny" that returns him to the blissful, dreamless condition...