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...genius for spending even more than he raised. Not on himself; his oddball personal habits were far from extravagant. But no sum was too great to lavish on his laboratories; Edison ordered the most expensive materials on earth, like platinum, by the pound. He was also the creator of the modern research and development lab, which he called an "invention factory." He was the first to hire a team of scientists and technicians and set them to work systematically producing innovations. But his inability to stay within a budget would speedily get him fired from any corporate lab today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Quintessential Innovator | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...program has received funding from outside corporations, including the Exxon Education Foundation and General Motors, Donna G. Martyn, assistant dean placement at the GSAS and creator of the program, said yesterday. The program's tuition will be $600, she added...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: GSAS to Offer Business Training Program To Increase PhD Employment Opportunities | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

Musical Comedy Tonight is a serious attempt to explain just how the American musical grew up. The show's host and creator, Sylvia Fine Kaye, is a songwriter (for her husband Danny) and a teacher (at the University of Southern California and Yale). Her TV special is a canny amalgam of entertainment and history. Over 90 minutes the audience watches 14 numbers from typical musicals of different eras: Good News (1927), Anything Goes (1934), Oklahoma! (1943) and Company (1970). In between, Kaye describes the genesis and innovations of each show, augmenting her observations with demonstrations at the piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Celebrating Broadway's Best | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...idea seemed foolproof enough to its creator, Kyriazis, who pushed the program after a friend of his at the University of Pennsylvania set up a similar organization there...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Help Wanted | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...pony and fly victorious across a manicured field, without all this Fabian's life need not continue. Hence, the books Fabian has written (he too is an author) warn of the dangers of horsemanship--there's no blithe extolling of the joys of riding here. Indeed, Kosinski--Fabian's creator--himself carries poison with him at all times so he can abruptly kill himself should he suffer such a crippling accident...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Horse Play | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

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