Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the annual convention of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association in Sendai City, the nation's top newsmen gladdened the hearts of the geisha by spending yen as if they were sen. It was expense account money, handed out by their hard-pressed business offices with orders...
Hippocrates, retained his faculties until the end, died (according to Cicero) with "pen in hand" at 80. Michelangelo worked hard as chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica up to his death at 89. Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his...
The talks were a security-benefits re-opener of the five-year contract (to 1960), and the union wanted to discuss fringe benefits, including higher layoff pay. Instead, G.E. offered a new security-and-savings plan, based on a worker's earnings, to be financed by lowering automatic pay...
He has reassembled all the familiar and unfamiliar characters of the Bonanza and El Dorado days, missing no nugget of color and adventure. A squaw man named George Washington ("Siwash George") Carmack staked the first big claim on Aug. 17, 1896, a day still celebrated in Yukon territory. There it...
In his address before the NETC convention, Logan spoke on "Problems in Directing." He began by quoting an Air Force instructor, who had told him, "There's very little to stage direction. All you have to do is arrange it so you can see 'em and hear 'em." And Logan...