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...music. But that is enough for Composer-Critic Taylor, who began his career as a piano-roll puncher, vaudeville entertainer and poster artist, is not embarrassed to recall that he narrated Walt Disney's Fantasia, and thinks that U.S. music needs more corn to replace the "dry, squeezed lemon" of modernism. At 74 turning again to composition, Taylor says of Ibbetson: "I'd forgotten how good...
...Arnold O. Beckman, 60, is a former assistant professor of chemistry at California Institute of Technology who did a friend a favor by making a "pH" meter to test the acidity of lemon juice, set up shop in a garage in 1935 to manufacture them for industrial testing purposes. The small beginning grew into Beckman Instruments, which now has sales of $45 million, makes analytical instruments. Beckman owns 37% of his company's 1,380,000 shares, which is now worth $44.9 million...
...Lemon, Washington...
...teens he fed material to Walter Winchell, also showed so much talent as a cartoonist that the Morning Telegraph hired him to illustrate its "Beau Broadway" column. At 22, he began reviewing plays for the Hollywood Reporter, seldom wasted words. Samples: Strange Fruit-"a lemon"; Billion Dollar Baby-"inflation." When one Broadway producer complained that Hoffman was physically unqualified for his job because he "can't see," Hoffman squinted agreeably and said, "Yes, but there's nothing wrong with my nose...
Born in David City, Neb., Hallmark's Hall started work at the age of nine selling lemon-extract perfume to help support his mother, worked on through high school selling postcards and helping in a bookstore. By 1912, he was in Kansas City, determined to make a go of greeting cards. The venture almost died as soon as it started; Hall was $17,000 in debt when a flash fire wiped out his printing plant. Luckily, he was able to sweet-talk a local bank into an unsecured $25,000 loan, and he has not taken a step back...