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Getting into a theater should not be such an expensive chore. "Try to get a decent location in a hit show at the box office. It cannot be done. It has driven hundreds of thousands of individuals away from the theater who will not patronize black markets and are not on an expense account." For the Department of Licenses to allow "200,000 to 300,000 house seats from theater owners per annum to get into the hands of special brokers . . . makes no sense. Obviously these are the best seats...
...lawns and shrubberies in the admiration of a highly intelligent wife, two secretaries, a young lady researcher and a pair of French poodles, he went into his study to digest the daily papers. Then, at his desk in bath robe and slippers, he polished off the morning's chore of writing. With the help of the young lady researcher, who has an office on the third floor, he has checked and rechecked his facts. If it is the day for the column to go to press, he has recited the polished sentences into a Dictaphone, and soon they will...
...Capitol Hill for a congressional once-over went smiling Judge James P. McGranery of Philadelphia, Attorney-General designate, the man picked by Harry Truman to do the promised house-cleaning chore that Newbold Morris and Howard McGrath fouled up so spectacularly last month. McGranery's performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee left his inquisitors, friend & foe alike, mostly unsmiling...
Undefeated Leverett picked up its sixth consecutive win in softball by beating Eliot, 10 to 3. Lou Chizer handled the pitching chore for the Bunnies...
...preoccupation with "the family" is fully as great as with world affairs, and she stays in constant and benign communication with all its branches. The chore involves writing and sending gifts to five children, 18 grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, assorted cousins and nine daughters-in-law and ex-daughters-in-law. But by awesome attention to dates, awesome budgeting of her time, and by sitting up in bed to write letters almost nightly before going to sleep, she manages it, no matter how busy her life...