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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...list includes members of all graduating classes of the past 25 years...
Death for the Director. Judging from its stormy past, Le Figaro's next 19 years should be lively enough. Founded in 1826 as a weekly theatrical review, Le Figaro helped pay its way at first by collecting bribes from authors and playwrights for favorable notices. It later changed its ways, lured promising young authors to its pages, and was so successful, that it became a daily newspaper. When it printed pro-Dreyfus articles in the '90s, crowds stormed Le Figaro's plant and burned its equipment. In 1914, after Le Figaro published a series of bitter editorial...
Most Bee staffers disagree. Growled one copyreader: "I get my Liebestraum all mixed up with my rape. And on a deadline, it's murder." Five times in the past year, unrelaxed, unidentified staffers have stopped the Muzak. Last week a chilling notice was tacked on the bulletin board: "Anyone turning it [the music] off again will be fired immediately. [Signed] Myron Depew, City Editor." Since newspaper jobs are hard to get, Muzak will now probably play on unmolested...
...whole U.S. economy has grown so impressively that comparisons with the past rarely told the whole story. In 1939, the U.S. population had total liquid savings (i.e., cash or its equivalent) of $49.6 billion, only $3.1 billion more than the total value of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1950 the liquid savings stood at $175 billion, more than double the total value of all stocks listed on the Big Board...
...thought was going to happen, rather than to what the economic signs indicated. Last week many Wall Streeters worried because the bull market had not had the reaction (i.e., a backtracking of perhaps one-third to one-half of the advance) that had interrupted long market rises in the past...