Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fire & Ice. When short, balding Conductor Ormandy stepped before the Orchestra Hall audience, he had only two rehearsals under his belt. He had decided on a "good box office" program of standards: Bach's C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Brahms's Symphony...
...fires. He burns it up according to the dictates of his own four-footed psyche; his jockey is only along for the ride. He breaks from the gate like a common sprinter, races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads for the crowd again. Says Co-Owner Tom Ross: "I swear, he counts the house...
...certainly not a professional historian, would dare to box the compass of Churchill's subject matter. His great grasp of the essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been contained in so few words. He begins the last volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1815, leaving Waterloo (reluctantly, it would seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into...
Despite his penny pinching, gambling brought Harry Cohn his biggest thrills and his greatest triumphs at the box office; e.g., no one else liked the chances of The Jolson Story, From Here to Eternity or Picnic. Cohn made millions on them...
...like: "I plan to assemble a human being." His friend is horrified. "But, Professor Frankenstein, you can't-" Oh yes, he can, and what's more, he plans to make a teen-age monster. After all, I Was a Teenage Werewolf was a howling success at the box office last year. Explains the mad scientist: "Only in youth is there hope...