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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reviewer Scheuer influenced by what Previewer Scheuer has written? "Well, I try to be detached," he says, "and, of course, often the preview has been written by somebody else on my staff." Even with staff help, he can claim the dubious distinction of enduring at least as much television, before and behind the screen, as anybody...
...Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader and Rita Streich (Decca). Despite the good singing, the recordings suffer from the opera's basic structural fault. Groundbreaker though he was in his own day, Composer Gluck stuck too closely to wearisome, undramatic alternation of choral passages and recitatives, thus kept his often lovely work from stirring into full-bodied life...
Pinched for cash, the world's richest nation has often come off second best. At last year's fair in Bogota, Colombia, the U.S. spent less than $500,000 (v. $1,500,000 for the joint Czech-East German pavilion), had to resort to an unimpressive display of photographs to picture the abundant U.S. in action. But fair planners in the Department of Commerce have learned to stretch their dollars by leaning heavily on private business to contribute products, exhibits and top executives to the trade missions at the fairs. They have also learned that commonplace U.S. gadgets...
...such things as a gadget-packed, full-scale U.S. house or a supermarket to impoverished people who can barely understand what they are, let alone buy them. But most businessmen believe that people over the world want to see the best and latest U.S. products, even though it is often a problem to make clear that the wonders are enjoyed by the average American...
...through Birmingham-Southern College, then the University of Chicago business school, in 1929 got a job teaching economics at Ohio Wesleyan. In 1933 he tried to go to work for Goodrich, was turned down, partly because the company was soured on college professors who drifted into business and often drifted back to teaching. Keener wangled a temporary job in 1937, later, in 1939, a permanent position. By 1946 he had worked his way up through sales analysis and research to vice president of employee relations. Soon he had the reputation of being on first-name terms with more Goodrich employees...