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...Believe in You sequence, he pops into the theater at 10:39, and if anything is slipshod. Burrows will be crashing around backstage making a disturbance at 11:15, perhaps calling for a morning rehearsal. Similar sneak visits are frequently made by Choreographer Bob Fosse, Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin. Says Pressagent Merle Debuskey: "It's like Big Brother...
...serious pressure for Malayan independence, he began training local men to take a hand in plantation management. At great cost, he pioneered the development of new grafting techniques and agricultural hormones that have produced higher-yielding rubber trees. By sharing his developments with the official Malayan rubber research agen cy and, along with other rubber planters, helping to finance it, he is now sparking the government's drive to help hundreds of small growers replant with high-yield trees. Last year Sir John's trees produced up to 1,000 Ibs. of rubber per acre...
...Hundred Years' War between France and confident, aggressive England. Vastly outnumbered, superior English bowmen win Battle of Crécy...
...Cy, Do Me a Favor." Though the low-markup, high-volume formula seems simple, it requires an artful balance of costs, prices and presentation. Ferkauf believes that "a store is like a theatrical production. The setting is vital in soft goods. We had to learn the hard way." Presiding over the presentation, and pursuing his goals of neatness and taste in a volume operation, Ferkauf spends most of his working days in an endless trek from one store to another, sparking The Boys to do just a little bit better...
...scolds incessantly in Yiddish-spiced Brooklynese. It is almost always done gently and with a smile, but the point gets across. "Cy, please, so why is it so schmootzig [dirty] around the soft-drink machine? I told you that should never happen. Cy, do me a favor. Clean...