Word: four
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Killer." Last week Robbins Landon completed a Haydn Society coup he was sure would become a major musical event: the recording of Haydn's last opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, a four-act work that has never been staged...
...nearly 20 years. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 231.03, up 6.33 points in two days, thanks chiefly to the scramble to buy oils, metals and aircraft stocks. A spectacular performer: Grumman Aircraft. After a two-for-one split, it soared from 22⅝ to 28¾ in four days...
This novel stockholders' meeting was the latest idea of Hawaiian Pineapple's President Henry Arthur White, who for the past four years has had his star employees explain the workings of Hawaiian Pineapple to their fellow workers (in Chinese, Japanese and English). This year he began flying his employees around the islands to see the different operations firsthand (TIME, April 24). The results were so successful that he decided to bring the employees to the mainland to tell the stockholders what they had learned...
...becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...
Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell. Reminiscences and reflections on literature and life by the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (TIME...