Word: edgar
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Friends for years, Newberg and Colbert both started to work for Chrysler in 1933. As Colbert advanced, Newberg was usually only a step behind. When President Colbert became Chrysler's board chairman, it was no surprise to anyone that Newberg was named president, bypassing able First Vice President Edgar C. Row, 64, who, Colbert said, was ailing and anxious to retire. When Newberg left last week the ailing Row was pronounced "recovered" of his ailment (deafness) by Colbert and given his job back, despite the fact that Row had already released his secretary and cleaned out his desk...
...Edgar Driscoll, art critic of the Boston Globe, suggested as a solution for next year that there be two juries, one for representational and one for abstract art, each in charge of picking half the paintings. One trouble with this idea is that a true artistic climate is not necessarily reflected by such an arbitrary 50-50 division. But a more serious objection arises from the fact that it is not always possible to relegate a painting to one or the other of the two categories. The work of many artists is semi-abstract or semi-representational; some...
Rewriter Sir William Davenant, Shakespeare's godson, refined this into: "Now friend, what means thy change of countenance?" Romeo and Juliet stayed alive; "false Cressid" remained true to Troilus; and in the most bizarre happy ending of the lot, King Lear's daughter Cordelia married Edgar, and Lear was offered back his kingdom. Adapter Nahum Tate, who also edited out Lear's Fool (this cut lasted for 157 years), solemnly declared that his only purpose was "making the tale conclude in a success for the innocent distressed persons...
...Stevenson & Mr. K Sir: Adlai Stevenson's statement blaming the Republican Administration for the trouble at the summit proves him to be a political opportunist of the first order. MRS. IVAN SMITH Edgar...
...chairman-designate of Manhattan-headquartered, high-fashion Bonwit Teller, also resigned as president of the Hoving Corp., a holding company that controls 52% of Tiffany's but is in turn held by the giant (1959 sales: $276 million) Genesco, Inc. Taking over as president at Bonwit Teller is Edgar Wherry, 54, now vice president of J. W. Robinson, a Los Angeles department store chain, and longtime merchandise manager at Manhattan's Lord & Taylor. Reason for Hoving's move: he hopes to buy Tiffany's from Genesco and put the old (123 years) firm on a more...