Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clerical sponsors, raised the capital funds from a number of millionaire Protestant laymen, including Oilman J. Howard Pew and Chairman Maxey Jarman of GENESCO, Inc., who still make up most of the magazine's annual $225,000 deficit. To edit the new magazine Graham's committee chose Baptist Professor Carl Henry, 49, of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. He agreed to take on the job for a year "to get things moving in the right direction." Henry is still keeping Christianity Today on the move. Raised as an Episcopalian, Henry was editor of the weekly Smithtown, N.Y., Star...
...city desk, Aggie was a curiosity at first-the nation's only woman city editor of a metropolitan daily. Aggie still retains that distinction, but now she is much more than a curiosity. Last week the National Federation of Press Women chose her "the most outstanding woman in journalism." To this, proud Hobbyist Aggie added, with a gruff note of femininity: "And a damn good cook...
...demonstration of comparative news coverage, the Globe chose June i. It monitored radio and television broadcasts from 5 p.m. until 1 a.m. (roughly the hours in which the day's Globe was put together), then compared the middle-weight Globe (30 pages) with the broadcasters' total coverage. The story the Globe chose for prime play (Page One, column 8) covered a stock-market rally; on the air the story got near-equal play...
...then there was the program itself. Mr. Manusevitch must be vividly aware of the limitations of his group, and yet he chose to play two works that were obviously beyound the capabilities of his musicians and one piece that was beneath the contempt of his audience. (The two were Bartok's Third Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E; the one, a Symphony in D by a French composer of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras named Etienne-Nicolas Mehul.) Perhaps Mr. Manusevitch simply can't think of anything else to do with his orchestra...
...canny Adolph Klein, owner of Townley Frocks, Inc., home of the late Claire McCardell, whose casual, comfortable "American Look" (no buttons that don't button, no bows that don't tie) made the U.S. the world's sportswear capital. When Claire McCardell died in 1958, Klein chose Brooks as the man with the best chance of filling the gap she left. Townley's sales have doubled since Brooks took over, now run to a handsome 40,000 or more dresses a year, retailing...