Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force is following an exactly opposite policy. Last week it began switching its part-time element, the Air National Guard, from tactical support to jet interception missions with the Air Defense Command...
...couple of continents, and wind up with Scott an inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless schizophrenic. Fitzgerald's literary agent, Harold Ober, told radio listeners where the money came from: short stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual orgies of the time, but he also kept a secretly detached position, regarding himself as a pauper living among millionaires . . . a sullen peasant among the nobility...
...canvases were selling at five-figure prices. He painted about 4,000, of which half are now in U.S. collections. Every one has to do with the good things of life, particularly the loveliness of women, children and flowers. They are the work of a simple man with extraordinary command of his craft, who aimed to please and hit the bull's eye. All this does not make him a "master," for the true masters of art have been those who inspired mankind. Renoir's mission was more that of a chef who served up delicious refreshments...
...outstanding shares; Gussie himself owns 22%, worth some $20 million, and is paid a salary of $150,000 a year. Eberhard Anheuser, the 74-year-old grandson of one of the founders, is chairman of the board, but Gussie, grandson of the other founder, is the man in command. Says he: "The thing I want to do more than anything else in the world is run this business in a way that would make my grandfather and my father and my brother proud...
...time helping to break tank-production bottlenecks at Detroit's automotive center, came out in 1945 as a colonel with the Legion of Merit. In 1946, when his brother died of cancer, Gussie stepped into the president's job. But no sooner was he in command than Busch found himself and his company in deep trouble...