Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Billie Jean has been playing tennis ever since she turned eleven and "asked my parents to suggest a sport in which I could be a champion and a lady at the same time." Within four years, Little Miss Moffitt was a regular on the tournament circuit. Unlike many top women players, who hang back around the baseline, Billie Jean is a relentless net attacker, and her first volley is as good...
PROKOFIEV: CONCERTO NO. 2 IN G MI NOR; SIBELIUS: CONCERTO IN D MINOR (RCA Victor). Itzhak Perlman, the 21-year-old Israeli violinist, has already made an impressive name for himself in the concert circuit. This is his recording debut, and it confirms his growing prestige. He manages to make Prokofiev's percussive, rather frantic concerto sing, and his considerate understanding of Sibelius' darkly sad Romanticism is powerful. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf's Boston Symphony gives Perlman rich support...
...through," Bruce Barton once said. There was one thing about Barton himself that never changed - his faith in spunk, selfhelp, salesmanship, sloganeering, America. That faith, given wide circulation through his uplift books, his catchy advertising copy, and his cheer fully uncomplicated politics, made Barton, son of a circuit-riding Tennessee preacher, one of the great evangelists of his day. From World War I until last week, when he died in Manhattan at 80, he remained an unspoiled and influential American optimist...
...competition, most of which was soon to wither, Prescott sent his pilots barnstorming for business. The company hauled grapes from the West Coast to Georgia, took Elsie, the Borden Cow, from the East to a California county fair, even toted Roy Rogers' horse Trigger around the rodeo circuit. All the while, the hustling Prescott ("We would wash cars on Sunday morning if we had to") was buying up airplanes and "gambling that somehow we'd find a use for them." Not until 1949 did the company fly into the black -and it suffered losses a couple of times...
Corporate headhunters have been descending on campuses with uncommon force and flair. Some 500 swarmed to Stanford University this year, as against 350 last season. At Michigan State, 2,500 companies, including many smaller businesses on the campus circuit for the first time, lined up to dicker with 5,000 prospects. With men in such short supply, the recruiting surge has intensified the search at female enclaves like Smith College, whose "vocational office" finds business better than ever...