Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Small Hours (by George S. Kaufman & Leueen MacGrath; produced by Max Gordon) is 26 scenes worth of life among big-shot Manhattan intellectuals. It displays them at sleek dinner parties, in cabs and sport cars, in offices and boudoirs, at smart restaurants and resorts. It shows them two-timing and double-crossing, ladling out flattery, dishing up scandal. It portrays in particular the Mitchell family-a brilliant, middle-aged publisher (Paul McGrath), his selfish daughter, his muddled son, and his wife Laura (Dorothy Stickney), who is clumsy and crushed in a world at once beyond and beneath her. But Laura...
...finger in many pies. His latest promotion is a $100 million steel mill which, if the Government will provide $90 million of the money, Eaton will build on a 1,000-acre site on the Detroit River at Gibraltar, Mich. To run the new company, Eaton has picked Max J. Zivian president of Detroit Steel Corp., in which Eaton controls 24% of the stock...
Long-Lasting Blood. One of the projects of blood research is to find ways to preserve whole blood. Dr. Max Strumia of Bryn Mawr, Pa. is working on a method of controlling the temperature, acidity and sugar content of blood. He thinks he may be able to preserve it for nine weeks, thus tripling the nation's stockpiled supply...
...these dixieland groups today," tiny Max Kaminsky complains in a small, high voice, "are a lot of bands that play it corny and just a few that make it swing right." Boston trumpeter Kaminsky opened Monday evening at Katherine Donahue's Savoy. His band swings, no doubt about it, but all is not as right as it could...
Clarinetist Prince Robinson ("Say he's from New Orleans," says Max. "That's a good place to be from.") is an Armstrong alumnus from way back, and does indeed play in the very ancient Crescent City tradition. Kaminsky blows his horn with a sharper, thinner tone and with less imagination than in past days; it comes out a New York or modern-Chicago style. And trombonist Munn Ware alternates strangely between a "suffering" blues tone and the most modern, polished sound of the three...