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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts. This week the Metropolitan broke a precedent. For the first time, it opened its galleries to a one-man show by a living artist...
...greatest public service, in the minds of many Georgians, has been its de-emphasis of advertising. After 17 prosperous years of broadcasting commercials, the station still gets along with a one-man sales department. Says Manager Outler: "If you gain the confidence of your community, all you need in your sales department is a wide transom over the door and a big basket under the transom...
...smile was exactly the same, and the straw hat seemed to be. After 13 years, Parisian Maurice Chevalier was back in Manhattan last week in a one-man show. He can still make up in personality for what he lacks in voice, but a whole evening of Chevalier is a bit too much. He has a few good new turns, though, and they are given the works. The best of the old ones - Louise and Valentine - need only to be sung...
Sell the Oil. Most of Standard's 112,000 employees have come to regard him as the boss. But Jersey Standard is too big to be a one-man show. No one man could oversee everything. Jersey Standard, which operates in 115 countries, has 245 subsidiaries with their 41 refineries, including the world's second largest at Aruba, 11,000 miles of pipelines and the largest U.S. fleet of private tankers...
...after Woodring won the nomination, Rooney found himself shoved into the kitchen while Woodring staged a one-man show in the parlor. Woodring scarcely mentioned the slate of World War II veterans Rooney had carefully put together; he ignored Rooney's advice, and overlooked him when state and county chairmen were picked. But what really burned up Rooney, who had contributed "rather handsomely," was Woodring's ungrateful statement that he had had no expenses in the campaign. That...