Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next caper -the stickup of the exclusive Tropico Hotel. Shelley keeps mooning at the snowy WarnerColor peaks of the High Sierras and speculating that it must be mighty clean up there. "Cold, too," says Jack, and goes back to laying his plans. Scripter W. R. (This Gun For Hire) Burnett still has about 30 minutes to kill before he can get around to his killing finish; so he sends Palance off on a romantic goose chase after a farmer's daughter (Lori Nelson), who has a tendency to the same high-flown appreciation of CinemaScopic nature as Shelley...
Making ends meet in managing a symphony means knowing not only how to put a program together but how to hire a hall and scale seat prices, how to find a first cellist and how to wangle newspaper space. Helping small-town symphonies with such chores is the task of the 13-year-old American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (headquarters: Charleston, W. Va.). The league has been taking a hard look at the music business and in the process, it has uncovered a mass of hitherto uncharted specifics. Item: community orchestras lose about 35% of their subscribers a year, hence...
...meticulous attention, imagination and artistic talent" that go into U.S. picture magazines. Added Editor Tooill: "If you don't have a city or picture editor with imagination, get one. Fire all photographers who are in the business because they once needed a job-any kind of job -and hire genuine artists with fine appreciation of picture composition, drama, pathos and humor; men who can take a fast look at any picture chore and see instantly how this can be made different. These are likely to be expensive...
...Division chief, G. Bernard Noble, firmly defends the impartiality and accuracy of his staff. "We don't even ask a man what his political views are when we hire him," he says. The delays in publication, he claims, are due to the tremendous amout of material which has to be correlated and the frequent need to get clearance for publication from military authorities and the governments of foreign countries. "Nothing crucial to the story is ever left out," he says...
...Producer Larry Puck (whose bride, Soprano Marion Marlowe, was fired last spring), Conductor Jerry Bresler, Announcer George Bryan (a ten-year employee), Singer Lu Ann Simms (about to return from maternity leave). At the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, Equestrian Godfrey rasped: "If I can't hire and fire people to suit myself, I'm going to quit...