Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clayton Fritchey, 61, a onetime editor of the New Orleans Item, left journalism to work in government, served Adlai Stevenson as a member of the U.S. mission to the United Nations. Now he returns to newspapers with a column on political subjects that promises to be "explosive...
Prince's principle of success is that he has brought sensible business management and cost accounting to an erratic field in which producers too often think that budgets are for breaking. He knows what every item in every scene costs-"including how much I'll need to simulate icicles." When casting his shows, he scouts for little-known talent because "stars tend to take the cream off the top of the profits." Broadway musicals commonly cost $500,000 to produce, but none of Prince's shows has topped...
Diversification is now a top item on Singer's agenda. Earlier this year, Scripto acquired Modern Carpet Industries Inc., a Georgia-based rug manufacturer, thus expanding into a field that Carl Singer knows well: the booming $15 billion-a-year home-furnishings industry. Singer intends, after building up capital for about a year, to look around actively for other fields far beyond both writing instruments and cigarette lighters...
...Germans would not buy them. Hungary has a glut of poor-quality textiles, including cheap shirts labeled in English "The Very Honorable, Foreign Made," also produces cheap shoes called Baby Doll to compete with those from Czechoslovakia's Communist-owned Bata shoe factory. Unable to sell either item to the West, Hungarian companies were forced to unload them on home consumers at cut-rate prices...
...open his characters' mail in public, as it were, but never to disclose their hearts, minds and motives. Acting with urbane finesse, the cast can probe no deeper than its period costumes. The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons. Item: "God, how can I silence this monstrous woman?" Item: "But you betrayed something in me, [soulful pause] deep, deep in me." Double item: Husband-"Have you defiled my bed?" Wife [tinkle of silvery laughter]-"Oh Donald, you must be the only man in England who would use such an expression...