Word: geyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Robert A. Geyer, associate professor of Nutrition, the chase began at about 3 a.m. Tuesday when these monkeys apparently pushed out the wire screen covering one side of their wooden crate. They were soon swinging on the rafters and pipes in the attic of the one-story Railway Air Express Terminal...
...femme fatale who exults upon seeing a Marlin: "Rambler, I didn't think you were THAT kind of car." These changes to the warmer side, however, were accompanied by a growing coolness between American and the ad agency that has held the Rambler account for 28 years: Geyer, Morey, Ballard. This fall the $15 million account will go to Benton & Bowles (1964 billings: $137 million...
...some admen, instead talks to businessmen in their own lingo: "The objective of advertising has always been to sell goods at a profit." A handy man with a trombone, Ganger (rhymes with hanger) paid his way through Ohio State ('26) by playing in campus dance bands, joined the Geyer ad agency fresh out of college. His work on a campaign for Embassy cigarettes brought him to the attention of Lorillard-where he spent three years before resigning "for reasons of health." When he was invited to take charge at D'Arcy in 1953, Ganger walked into a disaster...
Actually, the first movement is familiar as one of Bartok's Two Portraits for violin and orchestra. The second, fast movement, however, never got off the pages of Violinist Geyer's manuscript (which carries a dedication from Bartok that Conductor Sacher regards as too personal for publication). The 20-minute concerto emerged as a first-rate work-colorful, rhapsodic, characterized by soaring melodic lines of originality and striking beauty. Frankly romantic, it gives only occasional hints of the later Bartok of the second Violin Concerto-notably in the abrupt shifts of mood, the raucous attacks of the second...
Whether the two movements were written at the same time nobody knows. But according to Conductor Sacher, the second movement is an exact musical portrait of Violinist Stefi Geyer, whom friends remember as a dark, rapt beauty, a trifle spoiled by her early musical success, and more interested in her career than in young Bartok...