Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long-distanced Sherman Adams at home and at work 43 times in a recent six-month period, a phone call about once every four days ("A friend you call whenever you see fit"), and that Adams called him a number of times. ¶ Escorted Adams to a Boston tailor shop, Faber & Co., to be measured for a gift "suit, or probably two," although Press Secretary Hagerty had stated flatly only five weeks before that Adams had paid for the suits himself...
Separate Tables is actually a brace of plays--Table by the Window and Table Number Seven--both laid in a modest English private hotel. Both plays are studies in different types of loneliness; and both, aside from the two leads, employ the same set of characters. There is plenty of humor, but the themes are basically serious...
...Table Number Seven, the shy, mal-adjusted spinster daughter of a domineering mother is traumatically affected by the disclosure that Major Pollock, her one friend, not only is not a major at all but also has a penchant for taking manual liberties with strange women in movie theatres...
...Louisville's Nazareth College, in a not entirely convincing reply. Sister Mary's points: 1) questionnaires are an attempt to find out which children suffer from unhappy homes and thus enable the church to offer help; 2) play costumes are costly and so too are the increasing number of lay teachers needed in growing parochial schools; 3) mission collections teach children to make sacrifices; 4) Mrs. Cronin could help improve her children's textbooks by working with Parent-Teacher Associations; 5) if the play nets enough to pay an additional ?teacher next year, the doubled-up class...
...second quarter, Kappel noted, the number of new phones installed totaled "about 500,000-slightly more than in the first quarter," but still well below last year's figure of close to 700,000. Long-distance phone calls rose by 4% during the first half. Together, the two gains helped wipe out the first-quarter downturn in earnings. Net profits for the second quarter totaled $233 million, v. $214 million for the same quarter last year. Revenues were $1.66 billion, v. $1.57 billion last year. Said President Kappel: "While our current rate of gain is lower than...