Word: dreyfusism
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...feel that you have some good stuff in you," said Tin Pan Alley Publisher Max Dreyfus as he offered the 19-year-old composer a $35-a-week retainer. "It may take months, it may take a year, it may take five years, but I'm convinced that the stuff is there. Just stop in every morning, so to speak, and say hello...
...publisher of the already esteemed Jerome Kern, Dreyfus did not have to say that to everybody. But then, George Gershwin was not just any song plugger. One morning Gershwin said hello with a little ditty called Swanee...
Watergate is America's Dreyfus Affair, a symptom of moral decay. During the Ervin hearings, Nixon aide after Nixon aide demonstrated to all the world the distance that has developed between the cause of the president of the United States and the cause of justice...
...dark about how much grain they were buying at bargain prices that were kept low by Government export subsidies. This lapse occurred even though the dimensions of the deal should have been apparent to the department. Executives of three major grain dealers-Continental Grain Co., Cargill Inc. and Louis Dreyfus Corp.-told the Jackson subcommittee last week that they had separately notified Assistant Secretary Carroll G. Brunthaver of the magnitude of the Soviet grain needs shortly after their negotiators were approached by the Soviets. Brunthaver testified. "I do not recall receiving any such information...
...note for those with bulkier billfolds: the French food at Chez Jean (1 Shepard St.) tingles the taste of even those cosmopolitans finicky for delicacy. You couldn't say as much for Chez Dreyfus (44 Church St.), but there it is the customers that make the going or the gossiping good. President Bok eats there on his working days--how regularly that is is hard to say--and he tends to favor chopped sirloin with mushroom sauce (during a hot summer...