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When the final curtain fell, applause rang out loud & long. From the spectators a voice called: "Garcia Lorca!" In response, the curtain rose on an empty stage. Everyone understood, and cheered...
...Yale students had a way of finding out where salty Professor Herbert L. Seward might be. In his office in Strathcona Hall stood the engine-room telegraphs that had once relayed orders from the bridge of the S.S. Leviathan. If the professor was going to class, he rang up "Full Speed Ahead." "Dead Slow" meant out to lunch; "Full Speed Astern" meant a faculty meeting. At the end of each day the professor signaled "Finished Engines...
...mushroomed from one plant in 1898 to 55 factories, eight tanneries, a rubber plant and a cotton mill, with 35,000 employees and 12,000 stockholders. International Shoe, which makes 10% of all U.S. shoes (48 million pairs last year), has never been in the red. Last year it rang up sales of $190 million, profits of $7.6 million...
Last week, the sound of hammering and building rang across the windswept slopes above New Zealand's Island Bay. Workmen were busy on a tomb for the woman who may some day be canonized as the first woman saint of the South Pacific-Suzanne Aubert de Laye, known to the church as Mother Marie Joseph Aubert...
...Messrs. Shubert tightened their hold on what remained. About 14 months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division set FBI agents poking through the Shuberts' files, buttonholing show people in the rabbit warrens of Broadway casting offices. Last week Attorney General J. Howard McGrath rang up the curtain on a little drama of his own. In Manhattan's federal district court he slapped on a civil suit charging the Messrs. Shubert with monopolizing the U.S. theater in violation of the antitrust law. For good measure, he also sued Marcus Heiman, joint owner with the Shuberts...