Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to friends in San Francisco, Bernard Baruch found a park bench to sit on, newsmen to talk to, and a thought for the week: "The people of the United States had better do some tall thinking. Too many people are talking...
...Harper's Magazine, New York Lawyer Bernard B. Smith took a less professional but much darker view. "Newspaper publishers," said he, "are threatened by television's sudden rise. That the publishers realize this is demonstrated by the fact that about half of the applications for television licenses have been filed by newspapers . . . According to many surveys and tests, television advertising has a sharper impact than advertising either in the newspaper or over the radio. When, therefore, five years from now . . . there are 11 million television-equipped homes in America, as against the present figure of only some...
...Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Phonetician Henry Higgins undertakes to make a lady of Cockney Eliza Doolittle by teaching her to speak properly...
...Chairs. Nobody could quarrel with Billy's replacements, if they could be had. "To the left of the chairman sits Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
...commanding postion in the middle-European art world. A diplomatic fellow, who gets along with the Russians without antagonizing too much those who don't, he returned last year from a month's visit to England and immediately accepted an invitation to tour Russia. George Bernard Shaw, whom De Strobl once "busted," neatly ticketed the sculptor's somewhat bland art when he described the portrait of himself as being "what I should like to look like. Perhaps I shall some day, if I contemplate it with sufficient intensity...