Word: jumboes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allen did not have to look far. Already in the market for a jumbo passenger jet was an old friend with whom Boeing had clone a lot of mutually profitable business in the past. Pan American Chairman Juan Trippe has been buying Boeing products for years, from the old Yankee Clipper to the immensely successful 707 and 727. Now, Boeing simply redesigned its rejected military transport jet to meet Trippe's commercial needs. Last week Trippe signed a $525 million contract-biggest single order in the history of commercial aviation-to buy 25 of Boeing's new 747s...
Just when it has become uncertain what a novel is, everyone seems very sure that what he writes is a novel. There was Truman Capote's jumbo crime documentary, and now there is this "autobiographical novel" by Kenneth Rexroth...
Bronzes & Bullets. Now that he had sold himself, he hired a pressagent to ballyhoo him as a "Bantam Barnum," a "Mighty Midget" and the "Basement Belasco." He went on to produce eleven Broadway shows (including Jumbo, Carmen Jones'). He opened a restaurant and a nightclub (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe). He ran the Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair. He became a syndicated columnist, peddling a unique amalgam of show-biz snappy sayings and schmalz. He collected art the way other people collect neckties-he once tried to buy the Metropolitan Museum...
Mattress-Sized Popsicles. In turning art into a supermarket display, artists are reacting violently against the grandiloquent gestures of yesterday's abstract expressionists, whose work often looked like a square inch of Constable blown up to jumbo size. As the life went out of such abstract handwriting on walls, artists fell back on the visible world. In their embrace of reality, they state that art is no longer that which only looks like...
...play the second of their five scheduled games Thursday when they face Tufts in the Jumbo Oval...