Word: exhibitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funds at parlor meetings. Haft did not like the unbusinesslike approach. Says he: "The time has come to stop singing the Hatikvah [Israel's anthem] to raise a dollar." Instead Haft settled on mutuals, hoped that $10 million might be raised. He took his idea to Boston Movie Exhibitor Lawrence Laskey, who had large holdings in Bonds of Israel and was equally tired of parlor meetings. Impressed, Laskey bypassed Jewish-controlled investment houses to avoid any further tinge of sentiment, persuaded Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis to underwrite the plan. Visiting Israel, he also persuaded Finance Minister...
...most interesting exhibitor of this, our Washington Square, I found to be Dan Dennett '63 (Eliot), a sculptor. Though Mr. Dennett has by no means perfected his technical skill, his originality, depth of perception, and understanding for his materials go pretty much unrivalled by the other participants. His stone sculpture of a "Crusader" is particularly effective in its bulky angularity and sense of determination...
Autobiography is a form of exhibitionism that may be made socially acceptable by the exhibitor's eminence or celebrityhood, his talent for self-exploration or the story he has to tell. Good writing is a bonus...
...appearing daily, have established Ricketts as the leader of a Far East cult whose followers exist mainly to revile him. "Your tastes coincide with a slob," raged one such. "I stick pins in your column only in the hope that you will not sleep at night." An American film exhibitor in Tokyo, infuriated by Ricketts' reviews, made him a standing offer of free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband of a belly...