Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before had Manhattan's Whitney Museum held a retrospective show of a living painter. To break its precedent, the museum chose a Japanese-American named Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who ranks among the top dozen U.S. artists. For the painter, the exhibition was a test as well as a tribute. Would his life work, spread out on the walls, seem worth the effort it represented? "I had a butterfly in my stomach," Kuniyoshi confessed last week, "just thinking about...
...back. Their method: a $50,000 "presentation" to studio heads, based on a two-year survey made by Columbia University's Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld. The Lazarsfeld survey, made public last week, contends that movie-magazine readers are 1) the "opinion leaders" among moviegoers and thus 2) make or break a film at the box office...
Saturday's results indicated that Don Trimble and Sam Felton may break University records within a couple of weeks; that speedy Jon Spivak will probably restrict himself to the 100 this spring; that A1 Ruby, who pulled just as he was belting to the front at the 80-yard mark in the first heat of the 100, may not run for three weeks; that the Crimson will win a lot of points in the field events this season; and that the Crimson will lose a lot of points in the running events this season...
...those is that the Club is willing, at any cost, to break the strike and to place the Union in a weak position for bargaining next year throughout the city. This suspicion is based in part on the fact that the Club has paid "scab" waiters during the past week as high as eight dollars per meal...
Management has countered Union demands for higher wages and a shorter work week with statements that operations of the Club are "on a close to break-even basis," and that total wages have doubled during the past five years...