Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just before he reached the retirement age of 65 last fall, Chrysler Corp.'s President Kaufman Thuma Keller moved into the post of chairman (TIME, Nov. 13). Last week Chrysler Corp. told its stockholders the proposed terms of its new contract with "K.T.," who is now running the Government's guided missile program. For five years if the stockholders approve Keller will serve as chairman at $300,000 a year (1950 salary as president: $250,800). After that, for the rest of his life, K.T. will be paid $75,000 a year for services he will be called...
They called themselves the Vicious Circle, and one day as they trooped out after lunch-Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Bob Benchley, Heywood Broun and the rest-a pressagent paid them his passing respects. "There," said he, "goes the greatest collection of unsalable wit in America." Not too long after, most of them were naming their own prices...
Author Harriman says the Round Table was formed by accident and mutual attraction in 1920. It was an informal company, but one that no one dreamed of trying to crash. The charter members-including Alexander Woollcott, Harold Ross, George Kaufman and Edna Ferber -had violent dislikes that kept membership low and bores off bounds...
...unsalable" wits were not exactly unknown even in the early days of the Round Table. Everybody read F.P.A.'s "Conning Tower" in the Tribune; Deems Taylor was the World's bright young music critic; George Kaufman was the influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor of the American Legion Weekly, was soon to embark on his New Yorker venture; and Dorothy Parker was living, as usual, on the edge of disaster-she had just lost her drama critic's job at Vanity Fair* (at Showman Florenz Ziegfeld's request because Dottie had roasted...
...moves too fast to become boring. Mr. Kaufman's direction, Miss Stickney's performance and Donald Oenslager's sets are all helpful. But The Small Hours is not just unconvincing and overstuffed, with serial-story sentiment opposed to coldhearted sophistication. Far too often, it is flashy as well, and merely helps to illustrate what it presumably sets out to expose...