Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handsome Payoff. Israelis sometimes wonder whether they can really afford such an expensive scientific establishment. Yet it regularly produces so many scientific dividends that its irrepressible president, Meyer Weisgal, 75, a former Broadway impresario, leaves on fund-raising tours with these parting words to his scientists: "Boys and girls, I am going to tell many lies about you and the Weizmann Institute. When I come back, I want all the lies to be true...
...Yelling! The telephone is his fortress, his launching pad, his shepherd's crook. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud sat in Graham's San Francisco office one recent morning while Impresario Graham stabbed at the multiple buttons that were perpetually lighting up with incoming calls. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" he yells, his craggy face contorted, his back hunched. "They want to borrow another $12,000 for musical equipment! Did we supply them with one set already? Yes! Did they insure like I told them to? No! Did they get it stolen? Yes! They've gotta be crazy...
...Summer but Western. Nixon was very much the impresario. He gestured like a would-be conductor to The Stars and Stripes Forever, escorted Armstrong and then Collins around the floor between courses, stood to lead applause for the band during The Marines' Hymn, beamed paternally as he awarded the astronauts the Medal of Freedom.* Delightedly he announced that it was "the highest privilege I could have" to offer a concluding toast to Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. The President seemed relaxed and already refreshed from his first few days of vacation in nearby San Clemente at his new Western White...
...theater from light board to script girl; his exultation in his own unchallenged command of the mannerisms of theater people. His energy, now revealed as anger, as self-pity, as melodrama, never flags: any needle in any vein to keep the show alive. He is the supreme impresario, diverting his own eyes and the world's from himself to his creations. If he could put King Kong on stage he would. As director he has no respect for the conventional limits of stage and theater. All the world is a prop to him, and there is always the suspicion that...
...Black Rock. Bill Veeck, baseball and horse racing impresario, has lost the first round of his fight to bring major league horse racing to the Boston area in the fall...