Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made the Olympic team in 1952. Tall, tanned and blond, Chandler describes himself as "the world's oldest surfer" and regales visitors with tales of riding 12-ft. waves. He owns a $4 million fleet of competition cars and antique autos and is, along with Friend Paul Newman, one of the oldest active international race-car drivers. "It was one of those things I always wanted to do," says Chandler. A family man with five children, ages 15 to 27, Chandler finally took up the sport because Son Michael, 21, was interested...
...Ralph G. Newman, president of the Ulysses S. Grant Association, protesting free-form benches placed around Grant's Tomb: "It's like having a roller-coaster ride running up and down the Lincoln Memorial...
...subscription drive has become another of the fine arts, and there are few if any practitioners more polished than the Chicago Lyric Opera's pressagent, Danny Newman. "There's no arts boom in America today," says Newman, 60. "There's only a subscription boom." Newman should know. He has made the "fickle" single-ticket buyer expendable in many American cities. As a consultant to the Ford Foundation since 1961, he has criss-crossed the country teaching theater companies how to set up subscription drives. His formula: subscribe now. Those two words are blazoned on the brochures announcing...
...Newman's hard-sell tactics have turned off some of the patrons who are most knowledgeable about the arts. His prose can be flamboyant or plain trashy. He once billed Cavalleria Rusticana as "hot-blooded romance, illicit love and violent vengeance, Sicilian style." But Newman is a superflack, not a philistine. He wants to make culture a pervasive American institution...
...results of his campaign are impressive. Hundreds of companies, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the St. Louis Symphony, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Ballet, have had increases of 100% or more since Newman started advising them. The Louisville Ballet has already sold out the up coming fall season with 7,000 subscribers and 2,000 more on a waiting list. Says General Manager Michael Durham: "His book is our bible...