Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANDREW HILL, COMPULSION (Blue Note). Haitian-born Pianist Hill is magnificently obsessed with the complex rhythms and bold colors of African music. Aided by Nedi Quamar's African thumb piano (a handmade wooden box holding long metal prongs that are plucked), Renaud Simmons' conga and Joe Chamber's drums, he conjures up a thundering, lashing storm with sweeps across the keyboard -and then lets it fade into the silver pinging of random raindrops. Freddie Hubbard's trumpet has a cry for every change of mood...
...past two years, he has turned his surrealistic view of life into a light industry. After making his mark on the club circuit, he wrote and appeared in What's New, Pussycat?, which rang up one of the biggest box-office grosses ever (over $8.3 million) for a comedy movie. Then, in the Japanese-made film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, he collected $75,000 for supplying the dubbed-in dialogue that is totally alien to anything that is happening onscreen. In November, following a performance in the forthcoming Casino Royale, in which he ad-libbed...
...present, Millie offers a classic lesson in box-office brilliance. No sex (Julie Andrews changes clothes in a closet while the camera lounges around outside), no philosophy, no violence, only a homespun little message for homespun little girls: follow the dictates of your heart rather than your pocketbook, and your man will turn out to be a millionaire...
Skipped a Day. All the pills of both types now approved by the Food and Drug Administration for U.S. prescription (see box, page 80) are as close to 100% effective as any medication ever devised for any purpose. When a woman "on the pills" has become pregnant, it has been shown in virtually every case-and suspected in the others-that she has skipped a pill or two. The failure rate is slightly higher on the sequentials, apparently because the estrogen taken early in the cycle wears off rapidly, and a single day's missed pill may spell pregnancy...
Same Old Ways. Lou Ward was a Kansas City carton manufacturer making Stover candy boxes when he recognized Stover's potential. He raised $7,500,000 to buy out the partners. Keeping control of 47½% of the stock himself. Ward got out of debt in three years, meanwhile consolidating Stover operations, increasing the sales force, and gradually raising prices until a standard 1-lb. box of assorted chocolates now costs $1.70 (v. $1.40 in 1960). Ward has quadrupled the number of Stover retail outlets to 348; the company also wholesales to 5,150 drug and department stores...