Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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REACHING for superlatives in the hit song of his Broadway musical, Anything Goes, in 1934, Songster Cole Porter forged an unusual link between popular music and great art, wrote: "You're the top, you're the Louvre Museum." While France is considerably less than she was 24 years ago, the Louvre is still the top. Last January, over lunch in Manhattan with visiting Louvre Chief Curator Germain Bazin, TIME editors began laying the groundwork for a comprehensive report on the Louvre and its great collection, to be keyed to a two-volume study of the museum being published...
Armor & Rebellion. Thus Dwight Eisenhower talked into the swirling storm that had hit harder at the structure of his Administration and his party than any other big blow of his political career. For the first time the storm's eye centered on the White House and on wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 135 Ibs.) Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, presidential chief of staff and next to Ike the most powerful man in the Administration. Adams, by presidential assignment the guardian of the integrity that Ike had always promised, the man of stern incorruptibility...
...Menotti, who taught Hoiby at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. The opera had tension as well as lyric elasticity, especially when the postman-lover fell into a charmed sleep by the fire and the wife sang a lilting incantation. With both audience and critics, Composer Hoiby scored a clean hit. Said Rome's daily Il Messaggero: "It is impossible to doubt Hoiby's musical quality . . . The vitality of Chekhov could not be caught better than this...
...fact is that Big Steel, which had planned to finance the bulk of its projected $665 million expansion program for 1958 (TIME, March 24) through profits and depreciation charges, has been hit by the profit squeeze and the inadequacies of depreciation allowances. By going into the public market, it will improve its cash position, make it easier to continue its expansion program without further dipping into working capital...
Furniture has been particularly hard hit by the durable-goods recession because furniture purchases are usually postponable-until the chair breaks down. Business began to slide early in 1957, several months before the recession started. "We had become spoiled," says San Francisco Retailer Harry Jackson. "There was very little urgency or excitement in our field until two years ago, because houses were going up so fast that we had a built-in market. The only creative part was modern furniture, and that was mostly Scandinavian...