Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the U.S. got in its Mercury Astronauts, said Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II, the selection director, was "highly intelligent, highly motivated men." Their IQs range from 135 to 147-the genius level...
...already been paid for by the sale of more than fifty 1½-acre plots (top price: $75,000). Four miles from Taylor's project is the Coral Harbour Club, bankrolled to the tune of $2,000,000 by the widow and children of Coca-Cola Co. Director Lindsey Hopkins...
...widely held opinion. Nor is the show merely a catchall collection of kids exercising their ids. The lords of the Blue Forest are really a remarkable group of puppets created by ex-Actor George Nellé, 34. and Writer-Director Don Kane, 30. As Hostess Brigid and her small guests sit by and offer advice, creatures named Tugnacious R. Jones and Myrtle Flower ("She's an Eloise type") join an old, nasal-voiced wizard in such projects as constructing a popcorn machine that will not stop popping, and making a sewing machine that turns out marbles...
...Impatience gnaws at me once in a while," says Hollywood Composer Andre Previn. "I don't think I'll ever go as far as I want to go.'' The remark falls somewhat strangely from his lips. A musical director at M-G-M when he was barely 19, Previn has since juggled the careers of arranger, composer, conductor, concert pianist and jazzman, and kept each in the air without missing a beat...
...might just as aptly have been summed up under the title Six Characters in Search of an Opera. In a rococo salon near Paris, the six main figures sit chatting for the whole of one golden, 18th century afternoon-a Count and Countess, a Musician and a Poet, a Director and an Actress. The Poet and the Musician, both in love with the Countess, plead their special skills ("The poetic spirit is the mirror of the world!" sings the Poet; "The sounds of nature sing at the cradle of the arts!" replies the Musician). The Director scorns both their arts...