Word: fairness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wham! Pearl Harbor. Half the world away from Otaru, in a bumpy California crossroads hamlet called Cressy (pop. 400), chunky little Chiyoko Suzuki began her rehearsals for Flower Drum just 28 years ago. Youngest of a fair-sized Japanese-American family (a brother twelve years older, and two sisters, eight and ten years older), "Chiby" (Squirt) Suzuki was a loner from the start-a kid who seemed to figure she was expected to take care of herself. She went to a two-room schoolhouse, rode horses bareback, learned to swim in irrigation canals on her father's 100-acre...
...famed series that brought modern art into advertising layout. As design director for Olivetti, Lionni produced displays, designed new showrooms in San Francisco and Chicago. He has designed posters for Family Service, fountains for housing projects, displays for the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, is currently (among other things) art director of FORTUNE. But he has also kept on painting, producing a series of austere, severely painted portraits of men and women, remote and haunted-eyed. Says Lionni: "I am obsessed with one basic statement: man's loneliness, his fundamental incapability of communicating-and this...
...drive their own cars to town when the weather is good. Well, if they want a $1,000,000 piece of equipment to be waiting at the station for them every day, they had better pay for it every day." The Heineman plan aims to turn the fair-weather riders into faithful, fulltime riders. To do it, the North Western more than doubled prices of one-way tickets for close-in riders, thus making it costly to be an irregular, close-in commuter. But it scaled down the increase so that there was no change in fares...
...Fair Lady. Still the fairest of them...
...Fair Lady in CHICAGO, Music Man in SAN FRANCISCO, Two for the Seesaw in ST. Louis are reasonable facsimiles of the Broadway originals (see above...