Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movies were taken from the top of the press box on the Harvard side of the stadium, and from that high vantage point should give a good picture of the band formations, according to Walter J. Skinner '48, band manager...
Combining as they did the sparkling intimacy of a lady's jewelry box and (at their best) the monumental force of Gothic cathedral sculpture, Nottingham alabasters were sought after from Italy to Iceland-until "idolatry"-hating Oliver Cromwell...
Harvardman Merwin knows the value of gossip for a farmland paper (two-thirds of the Pantagraph's circulation is outside of Bloomington-pop. 34,000), keeps 95 reporters, mostly women, feeding it in from as many Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...
Kurtz found only 700 subscribers on the books for a ten-concert season. Today 46-year-old Efrem Kurtz runs one of the most financially successful symphonies in the U.S. His orchestra earns 85% of its annual $198,000 budget at the box office and by radio contracts (most major orchestras are lucky to bring in 70% of their keep). The orchestra plays more than 70 concerts a year, many of which are broadcast...
Long since a box-office hit in Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands and Italy, Les Enfants is now running for its second year in French cinema houses. It has been trimmed for U.S. audiences, given English titles and billed as Children of Paradise...