Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company occupies a converted electric-fan factory and does seven mixed-bag productions a year (Harvey, Moliere's Imaginary Invalid, Chekhov), was an amateur group for seven years before going Equity in 1954. In 1960, the Ford Foundation began giving the Alley $2,000 a week to hire ten professional actors and keep them there for at least three seasons. New York professionals rushed to the scene and stayed. The subscription roll has built to 4,500. And last year the Ford Foundation promised Nina Vance $2,100,000 to get out of the fan factory-provided that...
...directive to all government agencies, John W. Macy, chairman of the commission, has urged a drastic cut in summer employment, in line with President Johnson's economy drive. Government agencies have also been forbidden to hire students whose parents are employees of the same agency...
Died. Alan Ladd, 50, tough-guy movie hero, a slight and, in real life, amiable Californian who hit the marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...
...factory lawyer finds that he works just as hard at the top as he did on the climb. Wall Street lawyers still like to recall an anecdote about the late Hoyt A. Moore, a partner in Cravath, Swaine & Moore. A colleague once told Moore that the firm ought to hire more associates because the staff was overworked. "That's silly," Partner Moore replied. "No one is under pressure. There wasn't a light on when I left at 2 o'clock this morning...
...work in Newton unless you're a glutton for punishment," says one former teacher, who wishes he had never left. To find such gluttons (top pay: $11,600), Superintendent Brown raids not only schools across the U.S. but also universities. He takes only the best: "The people who hire teachers have to have the courage to turn down those who are not fit." As a result, Newton is brimful of truly concerned teachers. "My most important task," says Brown, "is to find good people, make sure they know their responsibilities, and then get out of their...