Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artists had decided not to cash in on a $2,500,000 insurance policy and pull out of the picture, problems piled up. Should they use a double to finish the scenes Ty had left undone? At least 50 applicants asked for the job. Even the final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made over. He was already growing a beard so the last scenes would have to be shot first, then a shave and a run through...
...only daughter has a family to raise. Last week, at 66, Spayth was hunting for a successor with a characteristically flip and frank tactic. WANTED-A SUCKER LIKE I WAS, read his want ad in the Publishers' Auxiliary, a Chicago trade paper. Spayth's scheme: to hire someone willing to work as hard as he does, in return for a regular salary plus weekly lOUs that would be converted into a down payment on the paper. Spayth's condition: "The closing of title to take place 24 hours after my carcass cools off, with the balance...
...Radcliffe that Ada Louise Comstock took over in 1923 was something of a makeshift institution. In 1879 a committee of Cambridge ladies asked Harvard President Charles W. Eliot for permission to hire Harvard professors to teach young ladies. The ladies got their permission and hired their profs-and also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their...
This is as Curley would have had it. It is, in fact, a view that he wished to lure from the realm of story-telling to that of contractual relationships between public officials and the people they hire to build bridges, dig tunnels, bulldoze beaches,, and supply the flowers on funerals and other state occasions. It was to the everlasting disgrace of the Boston Finance Committee that they failed to accept this application...
Pictures in Writing. To Washington Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York Times, Mary McGrory's "poet's gift of analogy" is a thing that puts her in a special class, and is one reason that he has tried to hire her. Mary's copy stands out against her rivals' because she has what one colleague calls the ability to "write pictures" of what she sees and hears. "I have very few opinions, but powerful impressions," she says. "I'm poor at summary, significance, relating-all I can do is respond...