Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than any of the men who robbed Brink's is still at large-and still making money out of it. For the Boston Globe's Joseph F. Dinneen, 57, dean of New England crime reporters, the big heist got him a Globe column called "Brink's Notebook," a handful of magazine articles, a book (Anatomy of a Crime) and a movie sale (Six Bridges to Cross). Dinneen's estimated haul, before taxes: $150,000. Last week Dinneen was looking for more pay dirt. He was working to prove his theory that there was an inside...
...bureau examiners went upstairs to defend their figures before the Director's Review, presided over by Hughes's deputy, Percival Brundage (ex-senior partner of the Price Waterhouse accounting firm). Some half-dozen times Hughes snapped the latest batch of approved budgets into a notebook, and took them to Gettysburg for presidential approval. When the President would give "his O.K., Hughes would write the agency head what is called an "allowance letter," stating the presidential-approved figure. Only six budgetary points went over his head to the President, and these included the controversial programs for foreign aid, agriculture...
...discussed the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and used an orchestra to trace the changes Beethoven made in the movement and patterning of his music. Says Bernstein: "Nobody knew whether people would sit still for 45 minutes on a subject like this. I had a notebook full of Beethoven's rejected sketches. We put them back into the symphony to see how it would have sounded if he hadn't been so determined on perfection...
Well, here we are again at that time of year when the round man flips out his notebook and thumbs through to decide who will find the biggest presents under his tree. I know that you probably doubt that he exists because to you old Kris is just another bourgcols fairy tale for fooling the downtrodden proletarians, but he certainly believes in you. I know that he does because I've been peeking over his shoulder the last few days and saw what he had beside your name. I just thought you might like to know how things stand between...
...Notebook of Maxims. In his office on Michigan's campus, Bennie Oosterbaan keeps a notebook filled with the sayings of the late great Michigan coach, Fielding ("Hurry-Up") Yost. "The will to win is not worth a nickel," says one of the Yost maxims, "unless you have the will to prepare." Oosterbaan, who played under Yost, follows that rule rigidly. For three hours every morning, an hour and a half before afternoon practice and two hours afterward, he and his assistants lay plans for the next game. Key decisions are often settled by a staff vote...