Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw to the Broadway stage and serious drama to other major U.S. cities; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Welshman who emigrated to the U.S. at 21, Langner organized the Theatre Guild in 1918 and saw it grow into a vast commercial success in the '40s and '50s with its own radio shows and scores of Broad way productions. A sometime playwright himself, Langner built the Westport (Conn.) Country Playhouse, with his wife, Actress Armina Marshall, in 1931 for summer stock and pre-Broadway tryouts, in 1950 started...
...bargemen's forebodings, inland waterways traffic seems sure to grow. The Corps of Engineers is about to spend $1.2 billion to open up a 516-mile stretch of the Arkansas River between the Mississippi and Catoosa, Okla., and is planning to connect the Tennessee and the Warrior-Tombigbee river systems. Mark Twain would be impressed by that one: to cut the connecting channel, the engineers are considering atomic blasting...
...richest farmer around New Egypt, N.J., has not tilled a field since he was in his teens, and the only crops that grow on his 106 acres are grass, alfalfa and hay. But Stanley Dancer is no gentleman farmer. He is up at dawn, rain or shine, employs a staff of 27, meets a weekly payroll of $2,200 and personally markets his product all the way from New York to Florida and California. At 35, Trainer-Driver Dancer is the top man in U.S. harness racing...
After that, every horse Dancer touched seemed to grow wings. He spent $1,200 for a lame pacer named Volo Chief, won $36,000, and added a two-bedroom wing to his house. Today, Dancer's Egyptian Acres boasts a heated swimming pool, fireproof barns, and air-conditioned dormitories for the stable hands. The 55 horses in his pastures are valued at more than $4,000,000, and Dancer employs a fulltime bookkeeper to keep track of operating expenses that amount to $350,000 a year...
Behind the sword dancing and cymbal clashing of the bestseller lists, where titles assail the eye from ads and authors assail the ear on panel shows, there are books that glow and grow with a life of their own, "discovered" and talked up by readers rather than literary promoters. Currently sparking such a small-scale chain reaction is a strange and touching little first novel called Stern. It is giving Author Bruce Jay Friedman, 32, who has published some short stories and who works in Manhattan as editor of an adventure magazine, a coterie reputation as a new novelist with...