Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smuggled one of his songs to Cole through his valet. It was called Nature Boy, and Cole's haunting version of it became a runaway bestseller. He soon broke up his trio to charges of "artistic sellout" by the jazz critics. "Critics," countered Cole, "don't buy records. They get them free...
...dozen, graphics once were not considered refined enough to be one of the fine arts. With the coming of this century, they were generally a means to make posters, illustrations and other hoi polloi images. Most serious artists would scoff at making them in preference to oils. People did buy "collector's prints," fussily perfect etchings of architecture and landscapes that reflected more a mania for the historic past than for the present scene. But that was no more serious than collecting cut glass. The exploding market for modern art has destroyed that indifference...
That plunk in the cup just starts the fun. First, the lucky golfer has to buy drinks for everybody in the clubhouse. (If he has been thoughtful enough to buy hole-in-one insurance at $2 a year, the insurance company will pick up the tab.) The newspapers run the story; gifts start arriving in the mail. In the old days, it was a case of Wheaties or a carton of Life Savers. Nowadays there are certificates, medals, highball glasses, ashtrays, barometers. The earth-shaking event is duly recorded by Golf Digest, which gives away clothes and golfing trips...
Dallas-based Braniff Airways never went in much for the frills with which most large U.S. airlines woo the customers. The nation's ninth largest line often gives indifferent service, has been slow to buy new planes, has resisted innovations. Braniff, for example, is a leader in the fight against in-flight entertainment. Last week the line decided to change its course. Invading the Los Angeles executive suite of rival Continental Airlines, it picked a new boss who has won a reputation as one of the industry's brightest young men. Braniff's new president: Harding Luther...
...objective," says Lawrence, "is to make Braniff emerge as the most efficient jet operator in the world." Though only ten of its 52 planes are jets, Braniff expects to take delivery this year of 14 British-made BAC-111 medium-range jets, has options to buy a dozen more. The airline, whose routes range as far north as Minneapolis and as far south as Buenos Aires, has also applied for the Dallas-Miami run and for flights between the Pacific Southwest and Northwest. And Harding Lawrence's selection gave new life to rumors that Braniff and Continental will eventually...