Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet...
...real name: Louis Francis Cristillo), 52, comedian, the fat funny half of Abbott and Costello; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. "Now, on the St. Louis team," Straight Man Bud Abbott would say, "Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third." Costello: "Do you know the fellows' names?" A: "Yes." C: "Well, then, who's playin' first?" A: "Yes." C: "I mean the fellow's name on first base." "Who," said Abbott, and they were off on a routine that became so famous that...
MUSICIANS make the best businessmen. I'd much rather be represented in a business deal by Stravinsky than any lawyer you could name." So says Goddard Lieberson, 47, the handsome, debonair president of Columbia Records. Lieberson ought to know. He is a musician (piano), composer (more than 100 pieces), novelist (Three for Bedroom C) and top-notch businessman. He has made Columbia the biggest seller of long-playing record albums (which now account for more than 70% of all records sold) and doubled its sales (now more than $50 million) since he took over as president...
...Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade, once cracked: "All this business of ffrr and FDS is just slogans, like 'It Floats,' for Ivory soap. Do you know what...
...offensive? Seeking a strategy, President Eisenhower last year picked a blue-chip team of U.S. capitalists, headed by President Harold Boeschenstein of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.* Last week the committee reported that the real cold-war economic challenge is to stimulate the export of more U.S. products, capital and know-how to all nations. It suggested a step-up in U.S. nonstrategic trade with the Soviet bloc, arguing that "if additional consumption of consumer goods could be stimulated, the result might be to produce pressures within the bloc, tending to divert resources from war potential to consumer goods." That would...