Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dior dress tear its seams. Caught in crush, one elderly lady faints and is hurried off to first aid. Survivors scurry off to corners, sort through dresses, throwing rejects on floor. They swap sizes with one another and exchange telephone numbers for later bartering. Mrs. Conroy: "You've got to hold your dresses tightly; otherwise some of those old squaws will sneak up behind you and snitch a few of them...
Cleaning Up. Holy Cross High got the $72,000 and survived the year. Subsequent donations and benefits have enabled it to continue. When Liberty/United Artists contributed more than 20,000 record albums, one parent provided an empty store, others offered to staff it, and Holy Cross found itself in the record business. The store made $9,000. A benefit performance by Singer Vikki Carr raised $20,000. A Christmas fruitcake sale netted...
...retirement this year, and it would be surprising if he did not. It was De Gaulle who encouraged Beuve-Méry to start Le Monde at the end of World Wat II as an honest newspaper that would carry France's prestige throughout the world. He probably got more honesty than he sought, for Le Monde became one of his most eloquent critics over issues such as Algeria, nuclear policy and the war on the dollar. When De Gaulle pledged in 1967 to aid French Canadians seeking "liberation," Beuve-Méry wrote that the President was suffering...
Obese Orchestras. Thereafter, everybody got into the act. From Mozart to obscure professors, composers reorchestrated and rearranged The Messiah. Since everybody wanted to sing it too, the choruses became enormous, and orchestras swelled proportionately. On the theory that if Handel had had a big orchestra he would have used it, a series of uncalled-for instruments puffed Handel's clean, baroque textures into plodding Victorian obesity. This musical elephantiasis reached some sort of a climax in 1959, when Sir Thomas Beecham recorded a Messiah that sounded a bit like Richard Strauss's Elektra: with cymbals, bells, triangles...
Clausen grew up in Hamilton, Ill., where his father, a Norwegian immigrant, owned and edited the local paper. He studied law at the University of Minnesota (LL.B., '49), and got a part-time job counting cash at the Bank of America while preparing for bar exams. After he passed, he decided to become a banker rather than a lawyer. He rose rapidly through a succession of lending jobs, many of them involving the financing of corporate mergers and takeovers. Clausen owes his big promotion partly to the fact that he is eleven years younger than his chief rival, Executive...