Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gerry Mulligan set shows Mulligan before his famous decline and still good to listen to. He squirms through a number called "Catch As Catch Can," with particularly fine aid from Art Farmer. George Shearing gets the benefit of good angles and skilled use of colored lights during his piece. Then, after Big Maybelle, who is much reminiscent of Bessie Smith, and Chuck Berry, who is much reminiscent of cacophony, comes Chico Hamilton...
...ball for the benefit of Polish refugees, Princess Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia, better known as Cosmetics Queen Helena Rubinstein, was joined by her old friend and near neighbor on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Pianist Artur Rubinstein. After the ball was over, Helena, ageless but eightyish, commented on her distant cousin: "I told his wife, 'The older he gets, the better he gets.' " What did she and Rubinstein, 72 this week, talk about? "A lot of nonsense...
...knows how to keep alive shows that are too sickly (or, occasionally, too good) to attract audiences by themselves. His own best flack, Merrick uses up pressagents like paper towels. For Clutterbuck, his first show, he had "Mr. Clutterbuck" paged in Manhattan's busiest hotels. For the benefit of the 1,600 newsmen boring themselves to death at Princess Grace's wedding, Merrick skywrote above Monaco, WHEN IN NEW YORK, SEE "FANNY." Some of his schemes are ordinary (he scattered sawdust and cowboys under the Destry marquee), and some are bizarre; this week he plans to send half...
...your story "New Industry for Ireland": the advent of the Borden Co. is of threefold benefit to us: 1) it utilizes native material, 2) it gives badly needed employment, and 3) the product is for export...
Laboratory Director George Lefevre, Jr. cited the increase in the number and made possible by this program as "its greatest benefit." He added: "We think it will make an improvement not only in the attitude of the staff and students but in their performance as well...