Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attractive, extraverted salesman-impatient with details or lengthy briefings, a man who shrinks from offending a friend or customer, who agonizes over difficult decisions. In his 26 months as Defense Secretary, which began so dramatically only five days after the first Sputnik soared into history, McElroy has had a hit-or-miss record (TIME, June 22). As a salesman, succeeding rough-handed "Engine Charlie" Wilson, he did a brilliant job of persuading Congress to accept his budgets-and then some. Congress, in fact, gave him some $806 million more than he asked for. But he could not choose between proliferating...
...Clear hit of the evening was Berg's difficult twelve-tone piece, last played in Manhattan ten years ago. Moved by the death of the 18-year-old daughter of a close friend, Composer Berg interrupted work on his opera Lulu to write the concerto in the summer of 1935, died before he could hear it performed. A tenderly elegiac work, it spreads a filigreed web of wispy lyric phrases, works up to a climax drawn from a phrase of a Lutheran hymn (Es ist genug), ends with the violin soaring softly above the fading orchestra. Last week...
...black-eared fox terrier on the cover of 60 Years of Music America Loves Best is a reminder that only the most famous U.S. recording company could have put together such an assortment. But the hit album (last week it was selling 5,000 copies a day) also expressed the Janus headed personality of the man who conceived it-a lanky, Viennese-born ex-advertising man and music critic named George Richard Marek...
...Star Evelyn (Eloise) Rudie, nine years old and ten inches shorter than Mickey's 5 ft. 3. Full of good taste. Paar had told his audience earlier that Mickey threatened to sock him on the nose, but Paar took flight because "I don't want to get hit in the knees...
...pulverize. Last week Philips President Frans Otten gave the latest progress report on Philips' amazing comeback. In the first nine months this year, sales of Philips' worldwide empire reached $735,110,000, compared with $636,530,000 in the same period last year, while profits hit an alltime peak of $55,650,000 compared with...