Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juilliard friends recall him as an easygoing, extraverted Texan of undeniable instinctive talents, but limited intellectual interests. Says a fellow pianist: "He never even talked music or seemed to think about it much when he was away from the piano." Now and again he even let his practicing slide; his mother periodically called him from Kilgore to urge him to practice, or called Manager Arthur Judd of Columbia Artists Management to tell him to get after Van. For a while he was informally engaged to a tall, lissome brunette from back home named Donna Sanders, who was studying voice...
...said Lightweight Champion Joe Brown just before he climbed into the ring in Houston to defend his title against nimble, light-punching Challenger Ralph Dupas. As good as his word, the lean Louisiana Negro put Dupas on the deck three times in the eighth, finally stepped back politely to let Referee Jimmy Webb announce what everyone in the arena already knew: Brown was still the boss of the 135-lb. division...
Buttonhook, line and slinker, the Nazis bought the argument, let Paris' 60-odd dressmakers carry on business almost as usual. Among them: Lelong proteégeés Balmain and Dior...
Then Steele cut in: "I let my wife run her business, and she lets me run mine...
...woman-one with more bounce to the ounce. This week, their apartment decorated and their debts to Pepsi paid, Mr. and Mrs. Steele were planning a six-weeks sales swing through Africa and the Middle East. Said he: "I hate to use my wife to help me sell, but let's face it-she does. On these trips most of our business is done through top officials of governments. At those high levels Crawford is fabulous...