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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Book "will be printed and distributed by the final week in January," editor-in-chief- Frank B. Gilbert '52 told Howard W. Robbins '52 of the Sophomore Class Committee yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Red Book To Appear in Three Weeks | 1/6/1950 | See Source »

Other new faces in new jobs last week: K. Taylor, who went to work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. as a stenographer in 1921, was elected assistant secretary, the first woman in A.T. & T.'s history to hold that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: On the Move | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Next to the annual Academy Awards presentation, Hollywood's highest social rite is the full-blown premiére (pronounced pre-meer). Last week, close to the deadline for the annual Oscar sweepstakes, 20th Century-Fox shot the works on the premiere of its own contender, Darryl F. Zanuck's war film, Twelve O'Clock High. The result was the very model of the full, colossal treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Premiere | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's wealthiest corporation ($10 billion in assets) wants to make all of its 600,000 workers stockholders. Last week, as A.T.& T. authorized a $200 million bond issue for sale to the public, it also offered 600,000 shares of common stock for sale only to employees, at $20 below the market price (145½ last week). A.T.& T. hopes to raise more than $60 million, plans to spend the money on new telephone installations. This is the third postwar stock offering to A.T.& T. employees ; there are already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: The Right Number | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Bureau of Internal Revenue won another round in its marathon bout against so-called non-profit clubs which pay no income tax. Last week the California branch of the American Automobile Association lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, was told it must pay taxes back to 1943. If the decision is applied to all 750 branches of the A.A.A. with its 2,170,000 members, the total amount of taxes due could reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: No Club | 1/2/1950 | See Source »