Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here we are, back to the War of the Roses," muttered an angry Gian Carlo Menotti, 55. His ninth annual Festival of Two Worlds had just opened in Spoleto, and police were threatening to ban performances of the bare-breasted Sierra Leone dance troupe unless they covered "the rose of the nipple." "I don't know how to cover only the nipple," sighed Dance Director John J. Akar. He did his best with scarves and plastic roses, but the scarves fell and the petals peeled. At week's end, Akar was ready to try adhesive disks, but Menotti...
...ironic accident of timing. The American Medical Association's 115th annual convention in Chicago last week wound up just in time for the doctors to go home to deal with the consequences of Medicare, the social security-administered medical insurance that so many of them had fought against so vehemently and so long...
...their names or fees. One guardian recently got $15,000 for ten hours' work on a $700,000 estate. Rumor has it that New York's guardians return about 30% of their fees to party coffers, which suggests the political leverage of Manhattan's two surrogates (annual salaries: $37,000), who last year appointed 428 guardians while handling estates with a gross value of $941 million. Not surprisingly, the big prize in Manhattan's primary last week was a 14-year term on the surrogate bench (see THE NATION), which Fiorello La Guardia once called...
...publishing business, delights in inventing words. One of his favorites is "bookazine," meaning a soft-cover book marketed like a magazine. Putting that word to work, Shimkin and three other men in 1939 founded his Pocket Books, Inc., the world's most voluminous softback-book producer, with an annual sale of $20 million from its 20% slice of the mass paperback market in the U.S. Another Shimkin word is "biblio-therapeutic," meaning books that help people. With such books, notably Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (12 million copies sold in all editions), Shimkin...
Bombed with Beer. Préfontaines, with annual sales of 52 million gal. worth $51 million, controls just 4% of the French market, but that is more than any competitor has. And only Préfontaines has Marc Henrion, 39, a Harvard Business School graduate, as director-general. At Harvard he distinguished himself by bombing the Baker Library with empty beer cans as he flew over it in his old Fairchild. Harvard grounded him but graduated him too ('50), and the next year he had a chance to apply his learning when André Dubonnet, of the company that...