Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward H. Heinemann, 52, quit as vice-president in charge of Douglas Aircraft's European Division to become executive vice president at Summers Gyroscope, a major maker of guidance systems for missiles. As chief engineer at Douglas' giant El Segundo plant from 1936 to 1958, Heinemann won fame as the exponent of clean, uncluttered aircraft, designed such famous Navy aircraft as the Skyraider attack bombers and the Dauntless dive bombers. ¶E. Clinton Towl, 54, succeeded the late Leon A. Swirbul as president of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Towl was one of the founders of the company...
...gives him great pleasure to initiate a collaboration which, he trusts, will continue for many years." The appointment confirmed what Eng lish critics have been saying for more than a year: Davis is the most promising con ducting talent to appear in England since Sir Thomas himself rose to fame. He is not a spectator's conductor. A solidly built, shock-haired man with a Mozartean profile, he conducts spiritedly but has none of the balletic exuberance of Bernstein or the smooth elegance of Sir Adrian Boult or the icily imperious quality of Reiner. Nor are his performances flamboyantly...
...rehearsal allegedly held earlier in the day. In the midst of this historical grab-bag, it seemed occasionally as though director Nancy Swortzell (Mr. Swortzell's wife) had lost sight of the play. This was unfortunate because although "Our American Cousin" was written as a melodrama, it achieved its fame as a burlesque of the melodrama form and for this type of show very carefully stylized and postured acting is required. Dana Bates and Seabury Quinn, Jr. managed the proper tone, but most of the rest of the company seemed ill at ease...
...Odetta, a 29-year-old Alabama-born singer who works out of Chicago and has become a favorite with the campus crowd. Originally trained for opera, Odetta first achieved fame with her version of Water Boy, has a repertory of some 200 sad, bawdy and fanciful songs-Bald-Headed Woman, Dark as a Dungeon, Great Historical Bums-all of which she delivers in a dark, handsomely pliant contralto with none of the whisky rawness of untutored folk singers...
...strode along in his size 13 shoes, embarrassed by his 6-ft. 6-in., 240-lb. frame, carrying his eccentricities with him until fame had transformed them into legend. He seldom washed, changed his shirt or had a haircut; he could live for hours, even days, on cigarettes and coal black coffee, then eat twelve eggs, two quarts of milk and an entire loaf of bread in one breakfast. Wild-eyed and forever talking with all the intensity of his written prose, he sprayed everyone in range with reservoirs of spittle from the corners of his mouth. Some thought...