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Introduced in 1946 on a kids' record album by former Capital Records executive Alan Livingston, Bozo debuted on Los Angeles TV three years later, played by Pinto Colvig, who had provided the voice on the records. During the clown's heyday in the mid-'60s, 183 different TV Bozos entertained kids in almost every major U.S. city, as well as countries from Brazil to Thailand. His popularity even prompted a dispute over authorship. Larry Harmon, an early Bozo who bought the rights to the character in 1956, for years promoted himself as Bozo's creator, until Livingston and others exposed...
...Less is more." But there couldn't be a better time to look back fully on Mies, 32 years after his death and two decades after Postmodernism rose up to proclaim that less is a bore. The last big Mies show, 15 years ago at MOMA, happened during the heyday of Postmodernism, when Mies and his followers were charged with hostility to history, to imagination and to What People Really Want. Now it's Postmodernism that's in trouble. For anyone tired of whimsy, streetscapes modeled after the Magic Kingdom and office towers topped by medieval crenellations, the dry pieties...
When I first came to Japan back in the 1960s, Japanese professional baseball was in its heyday. It had produced, arguably, its best squad ever - the proud Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who were then in the process of winning nine consecutive Japan Championships. The team was powered by Sadaharu Oh, the man who would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned...
...wont to complain, increasing an operating budget by $10 million—the most expensive estimate for the living wage’s cost—is no easy task. But neither is raising $1 million in a day, as Rudenstine managed to do during his capital campaign heyday. Giving the lowest-paid workers a big raise will cause friction with the workers just above them on the pay scale, perhaps requiring a small raise for the second group as well. But if the University really wanted to increase its budget, it could—causing barely a dent...
...Japanese stock market, which soared 300% from 1985 to 1990. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's strong-dollar stewardship did much the same for the U.S. stock market in the 1990s. The boom was characterized in Japan by inflated land prices, in the U.S. by the NASDAQ. Japan in its heyday, and the U.S. in its later boom, both experienced huge boosts in worker productivity, high growth and low inflation. Japan's manufacturing and management prowess were held up as a new model; in the U.S., technology was the salvation. Both countries were thought to be on to something revolutionary...