Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MNEHO--movies nobody ever heard of. Signifies films played on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable network. Applies also to classics stars such as Jeff Chandler (JC) and Virginia Mayo...
When DOROTHY CHANDLER died last week at 96, Los Angeles lost a cultural patron. Wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, she was the driving force behind the establishment of L.A.'s Music Center...
...Immediately after the opening number, Conductor [Zubin] Mehta turned to the audience... 'I would like you all to join me in paying homage to the one person who is most of all responsible for the creation of this edifice...' Dorothy Buffum Chandler sat shyly in her seat...while the applause rose around her. Only after four minutes, when her son Otis tugged her to her feet, did she rise and grin happily at the applauding audience...
...Buff' Chandler...almost singlehanded raised a staggering $18.5 million to build [the Music Center], and organized a company to float another $13.7 million in bonds to finish the job. It was perhaps the most impressive display of virtuoso money-raising...in...U.S. womanhood... 'What is important here tonight,' she said [later that evening], 'is not the fund raising or the building that we are in. The only really important thing here tonight is the music we heard performed. That will go on forever...
...Atlanta Falcons: Jim Druckenmiller, QB, Virginia Tech. Like Ditka, Dan Reeves traded down for additional picks. He needs a quarter-back to groom behind stand-in Chris Chandler, and Druckenmiller is the guy. He's not as good of a prospect as Tennessee junior Peyton Manning but will go this high simply because he's the best QB available. He is tall, has a strong arm, and lifted weights with the offensive linemen at school...