Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dark Morning. For its rosy glow, Sunset can thank the super-salesmanship of a rangy Kansan named Laurence William ("Larry") Lane, 61. In the '20s, Lane was ad manager for Meredith Publications (Better Homes & Gardens) when he came across Sunset, then a money-losing literary magazine with about 60,000 readers. Lane bought Sunset for $60,000, and turned it into a regional how-to-do-it magazine on gardening, building, decorating, food, travel, etc. Sunset ignored Hollywood, fashions and the movies. Says Lane: "We couldn't compete with the national magazines on things like movies, and they...
...Cornell's track team, the I.C. 4-A championship, for the first time since 1936; at Philadelphia. Individual standouts: Cornell's Meredith Gourdine, who doubled in the broad jump (a record 25 ft. 9¾ in.) and the 220-yd. low hurdles; and Seton Hall's Andy Stanfield, who led his team, to third place with a brilliant double (100-and 220-yd. dash) and a second place in the broad jump, ¾ in. behind Gourdine...
...message at the Manhattan radio studio simply asked its musical director to call a Brooklyn telephone number-no name given. When he called, a woman's voice asked, "Is this Meredith Willson?" Assured that it was, the woman said reverently, "May the good Lord bless and keep you," and then hung...
Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...
...success of his latest song was icing on the cake for Meredith Willson last week. The big event was the celebration of his 20th anniversary with NBC as probably the most durable composer-conductor in radio. Tallulah saluted him over the air with a sub-contralto speech, and gave him a plaque. His publishers exhorted disc jockeys throughout the U.S. to make it "May-the-Good-Lord-Bless-and-Keep-You" Week...