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...Music. Second-grade Noel Coward, but super Beatrice Lillie (TIME...
Nevertheless, International's bright-eyed, nickel-grey-haired President Robert Crooks Stanley announced last month that Frood had begun open-pit mining. By last week, these new operations were fast approaching a fixed-quota yield of 4,000 tons of ore a day. This is low-grade ore, expensive to smelt. But open-pit mining is much cheaper than shaft mining and-more important to smart President Stanley and International's 90,000 stockholders-combination of the two methods will assure an average grade of ore for many a year, will put off the day when even Frood...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...
Jonathan Orestes Jones was a puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result: he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his own body-building establishment, General Manpower, Inc. But Orestes ran his racket with a difference: he rented out his customers-as strikebreakers, loggers, steelworkers, etc. These "units" of General Manpower not only drew high wages but owned a share in the business. Worked intensively but never long, they were guaranteed intermediate periods of "reconditioning" at the company...
...time-consuming activities and sports are not on such firm ground. Except for the just plain "loafers," these groups undoubtedly supply the tutoring schools with their most willing material. And the trend of increased concentration and increased pressure due to the influx of more and more students chosen from grade competition makes these activities a hazardous undertaking from the scholastic point of view. President Conant's words were indeed an encouraging sign for those who believe education in its broadest, sense to be the best possible adjustment of individuality...