Word: canaday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Significantly, regular book publishers are eying the growing art-book market, and many have plunged in. Simon & Schuster has on its list John Canaday's clear, instructive Mainstreams of Modern Art ($12.50). Viking produced the year's loftiest cheesecake with Masterpieces...
...between architecture and painting, in which both come out badly maimed," declared Art Critic John Canaday on Page One of the New York Times; "The most beautiful building in America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror. "Mr. Wright's greatest building, New York's greatest building." said Architect Philip Johnson, "one of the greatest rooms of the 20th century." "Frank has really done it," snapped one artist. "He has made painting...
Others in the cast include Mikel Lambert, Judith Gilmartin, Walter Leeds, James Gross, Linda Gertsenfeld, Rab Hatfield and Joel Blatt. John Grace designed settings that improve as the play goes on and lighting was arranged by Rudd Canaday...
When Adman Ward Canaday bought control of Willys auto company in 1936, he resolved never again to have a strike such as the one that cost Willys $25 million and all but wrecked the company 20 years before. Canaday's method was simple. He promised to pay better wages than anyone else in the auto industry, in exchange for a no-strike pledge from the United Auto Workers. Willys has not had a strike since. But when Henry Kaiser bought the company last year (TIME, April 6. 1953), he found that Willys, in addition to the usual cost handicaps...
...other hand, Willys' hard-fisted Chairman Ward Canaday, 67, was willing to sell because, in spite of the fact that Willys has been able to build up big sales, largely from its jeeps, Canaday has never been able to pay a dividend on the common stock, of which he owns or controls 36%. Since the stock was selling at $5.25 only three years ago and the deal gives it a value of $17, Canaday and his co-owners (mainly his family) were more than willing to take a capital gain of $17.4 million on the deal. He is selling...