Word: hines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy," Fuller fired Holiday's first editor, spare, balding J. Frank Beaman, who had once been Fuller's secretary. Fuller also fired Holiday's art director, Don May. From "X" Fuller took James F. Yates as art director and Yank's former managing editor Al Hine as temporary troubleshooter...
Last week Dr. Galbraith, viewing this "bad situation," invited Chairman William Hine of the New York Produce Exchange's pepper committee to Washington. When Hine and other peppermen arrived, Galbraith announced, "We are not going to let the shipping shortage bail out the speculators." Then he bluntly told the brokers they had two ways out: 1) a margin requirement of $1,000 per unit (33,600 lb.) instead of $350, and an end to pure speculation, or 2) an OPACS-imposed price ceiling "considerably below the current price." Cowed, the brokers gulped assent to the margin boost. Next...
Decade ago, Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music sent one of its greenest sprigs, highbrowed Henry Arthur ("Hine") Brown, to the Southwest to stir up sweet sounds. Mr. Brown taught violin at New Mexico College of Agriculture, didn't stir up much until he went to El Paso. Then he waved a stick over the amateurs, and they turned into an orchestra. In five years the symphony, selfsupporting, was coming and pahing with as much assurance as any young outfit in the land...
Conductor Brown, now 34, glares professionally at 85 musicians at three rehearsals a week, half a dozen concerts a season. Half the orchestra is professional, and unionized, about one-third of it feminine (including Hine Brown's pretty, violin-playing wife). The players average $10 a concert, get nothing for rehearsals, and the union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop...