Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kindly, 58-year-old Alsatian-born Conductor Munch no longer really had to tell his musicians to relax. In eleven weeks as their first new conductor in 25 years, his musicians were freer of tension than they had been for years. In his first speech to them he had vowed...
Before he began his revolution, just 25 years ago, "W.P." was school superintendent of Fornfelt, Mo. (pop. 1,200). Then one day he heard that the school board was considering somebody else for the job. Face to face with politics, Waldo Johnson resigned.
Soon, with the help of a friend named Russell Sharp, W.P. had devised a book that seemed to be the answer. Inexpensively bound in brown paper, it was a workbook filled with simple sentences from Dickens and Longfellow as well as phrases about Sharp's pet dog Fogy. "I...
Today, after 25 years, W.P.'s Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President...
Crooning Cowboy Gene Autry makes an estimated $2,000,000 a year from his movies, radio show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS), commercial enterprises and personal appearances. Last week he happily admitted that he was getting another $500 a week just to stay off TV. As an option on his TV...