Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines. Catering to the middle-brow homebody and thriving on the postwar trend to do-it-yourself, American Home has picked up 800,000 new readers over the past ten years. The Meredith Publishing Co.'s Better Homes and Gardens has done even better, adding 1,200,000 readers in ten years to reach a circulation of 4,379,237. In advertising revenue Better Homes now ranks sixth among all national magazines, American Home a solid 16th...
...Best musical: Meredith Willson's The Music...
Bloomgarden sometimes snaps up a show the first time he hears it. "When Meredith Willson telephoned and asked me to produce The Music Man," he recalls, "I said to myself, 'Who the hell is Willson?' It had been so long since I'd heard him on the radio I'd forgotten all about him. He played the show through for me the next day, and we signed a contract that night...
...SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH puts a grim new angle on the old triangle. Annette is a fragile doll of a woman who has had a critical heart disease for more than 13 years; in Meredith's phrase, she is "a dying something never dead." In death's slow embrace she remains beautiful and virginal, tended in the peaceful New England countryside by a dedicated aunt and a Negro cook. This sunnily funereal household is subsidized out of the thin pocketbook of Annette's husband James, who shares one room in New York with his mistress and dreams...
Growing up in small-town Mason City, Iowa, Composer-Author-Lyricist Meredith Willson tootled his flute in the local band, watched the trotters at the county fair, pumped water for Saturday-night baths, was taught to beware of anyone who smoked cigarettes, especially tailor-mades. "Innocent-that was the adjective for Iowa," says Willson. "I didn't have to make anything up for The Music Man. All I had to do was remember...