Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Post-morteming big-leaguers explained their sudden affection for the Commissioner: you don't hire a doctor to tell you what to do, and then...
...Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
Mielziner employs only two assistants, shies away from the mass production possible to a highly sought-after designer. "I could enlarge my office," he once said, "hire 50 men, and become a millionaire, but I'd simply sicken myself with grouse and good port, and die of shame." Compared to most theater emoluments, designers' fees, which must cover designers' expenses, are not imposing. Mielziner's $3,500 for Dream Girl is about tops for a nonmusical; his $5,000 for Carousel, tops for a musical; the $30,000 that Mielziner grosses in a big year, tops...
...week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...
Author Bruff had written, and failed to publish, six previous novels. She had put her husband to sleep reading them to him. But she had kept him wide awake with The Manatee. An acquaintance made a businesslike suggestion: hire a press agent to sell the Bruff product in a businesslike way. Her husband approved. She hired Hollywood's Russell Birdwell for $50,000 for two years. Chief theme of his publicity: Miss Bruff, a free and gifted soul, had escaped or been expelled from almost every school she had attended...