Word: formulae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane Withers as Momma's sister, who put a lively kick into Pink Burro. In the past, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes and Julie Harris handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search for a new formula. Even in the summer, when other shows are sneaking by with reruns, the Steel Hour will remain live, with lively casts, the names familiar from countless Broadway marquees. Like the careful pilot who wants to be not the hottest guy in the air. merely the oldest, the Steel Hour will settle...
Across the U.S., Winston has built housing valued at more than $250 million. He has $112 million worth abuilding, including groups of 3,500 apartments in Bayside. L.I., 1,500 apartments in Palatine, Ill. His formula for success is to build houses fast and in quantity, offer people something they could not duplicate for the price ($8,490 to $29.000), and, most of all. "build up to their dreams" by offering luxuries and interiors usually found in costlier houses...
WINSTON'S formula is so successful that his own dreams have literally come true. He moves among jewel-like homes on Manhattan's Sutton Square, in Paris' Faubourg St.-Germain and the Riviera's St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. On both sides of the Atlantic he is a lavish and witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas...
...Royal Regatta. ¶ The Boston Red Sox were last in the American League race, and to Owner Tom Yawkey the next move was obvious. Out went Manager Mike ("Pinky") Higgins, 50. In came Billy Jurges, 51, the old National League shortstop (Chicago, New York), who declared an equally obvious formula for pulling up his Sox: "Ted Williams and a little extra hustle...
...competent pedagogues than those now available. Last week's beneficiaries: Bucknell University. Central Michigan College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University. University of North Carolina. University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University. Wayne State University. All are hard at work on stepped-up programs following the Ford formula: end trivial, time-consuming "educationist" courses by broadening liberal education for teachers, and get them into classrooms faster...