Word: cratchit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAWYERS Mighty Raise For decades, the fate of young lawyers in big law firms was right out of Dickens-a harrowing upward creep from Cratchit-like work weeks of 60 hours, to the office politics of survival, to the great expectations (years hence) of a lucrative partnership. While enduring those early hard times, the country's brightest law graduates dutifully toiled for relatively little. In 1963, the going rate for new associates at top Manhattan firms was only $7,200 a year-and much less in many other cities. But no more. Law students are abuzz with the news...
Wednesday, December 20 THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-It's a mixed bag when Santa Claus (Ed McMahon), Ebenezer Scrooge (Cyril Ritchard) and Bob Cratchit (Tony Tanner) join their dancing hostess on "The Mitzi Gaynor Christmas Show...
...dispensed his gifts with an eye for punishing the unworthy as well as rewarding the virtuous. Moore's jolly, open-handed Santa changed all that. Then came Dickens and A Christmas Carol in 1843. Within 20 years-thanks in part to countless readings by Dickens himself-Bob Cratchit and his lame son, Tiny Tim, had become the heroes of the holiday, and many an otherwise prudent man plunged into debt to avoid any likeness to Scrooge...
...have ugly repercussions is the choice of "Cleopatra" both for Worst Picture of the Year and Worst Film of the Century. (The latter award, given for the century 1863-1963 was last presented in 1958.) Usually reliable sources said last night that stars Elizabeth Taylor (winner of The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch) and Richard Burton (recipient of the Wilde Oscar) have already left Boston in a huff...