Word: canteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fine Wines. This season, cheery John Christie is breathing easier. His six-week season is fully sold out. Happily he scurries about the staff canteen, clearing tables, offering mild suggestions to artists, and making himself generally useful. Example: guests invited for the final dress rehearsal last week found Christie in the driveway waving cars into parking spaces...
...little new in the job for 47-year-old Olive Anne. As secretary-treasurer (salary: $35,610), she had managed the company's finances from the start. She also found time to have a family (Suzanne, 13, and Mary Lynn, 10) and to manage Wichita's wartime canteen. When her husband was hospitalized for a year in 1940, she added many of his chores to her own. She got the first Emergency Plant Facilities contract ($2,500,000) from the Government for wartime plant expansion in the airplane industry. In 1943, the New York Times listed...
...rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...
Recent reactions to Derby Day have been as negative as Wilde's. A year ago, the picture was demoted to a dark corner of the National Gallery's canteen; only a handful of sentimental oldtimers objected. Last week the painting was banished to the vaults. Its disappearance was little noted. London's Evening Standard fetched a mild editorial sigh: "Many people, of course, maintain that this is not a 'good picture.' But it is, at least, a sort of institution, and a very English affair at that...
Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...