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...Beautiful People has a boozy, poetical father (Curtis Cooksey) living with an adolescent son and daughter in a decaying mansion on a San Francisco hill. They are supported by a monthly pension check mistakenly addressed tor a dead man. The daughter (Betsy Blair) tends the mice in the house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York...
...annual mass this year, the Glee Club and Choral Society will give the Missa Solemnis in Symphony Hall this Sunday. All proceeds of the production will go to the pension fund for retired musicians...
...maze of reorganization, stockholders had not forgotten the father of their fiscal woes. Insisted one: "I understand there is an idea of giving the late chairman a pension. I'd like to know what it is likely to be." A reticent chairman finally announced that Harry Selfridge had been retained as "consultant" at a salary of ?2,000 a year. Result was a sort of polite mob scene...
Bishop Stires' pension after he retires will be about $2,000, far under his present salary of $11,250. But friends recalled that for years he gave it all back to the diocese to boost the pay of its poorer-paid pastors, even now accepts only part...
...Raleigh, N. C., a 72-year-oldster asked that his pension be stopped because he disliked being "a burden on the Government in these difficult times...