Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are only a few pitiful vestiges of the revue, notably the "Going-Home Train" scene and the sketch about the Air Force's boy general. The plot concerns a G.I. in Japan (Dan Dailey) and his legally separated wife (Betty Grable.) The wife is with a female entertainment outfit called the WOOF's or WAP's or something equally non-existant. After a great deal of childness, the movie ends in a clinch while a gushing fountain gushes and revolving stages revolve...
...Gallery was celebrating its 15th anniversary with a show of 96 happy alumni. Almost half of them, e.g., Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Adolph Gottlieb, have graduated to commercial galleries which charge commissions and push the same painters year after year. The Artists' Gallery does neither. A nonprofit outfit, it measures success only by the number of worthwhile new artists to whom it gives a start. By that measurement, it is one of Manhattan's most successful...
...decision to switch from British to U.S. arms. As fast as her present British-type equipment can be turned over to West European troops, Canada is replacing it with U.S. arms. Five thousand M-1 Garand rifles arrived recently to replace .303 Enfield rifles with which the Canadians helped outfit a Netherlands infantry division in December. Last week, at Eisen hower's request, a Luxembourg field artillery regiment was being supplied with two dozen 25-pounders; 105-mm. howitzers will take their place. When standardization is complete, Canadian and U.S. armies will be able to draw from a single...
Producer Bosustow (rhymes with adjust so), 39, who spent seven years with Disney, has built his outfit from six employees to a company of 75, with a $500,000-a-year business and a modern studio in Burbank, Calif. Since Columbia began releasing his cartoons two years ago at the rate of one a month, bookings have almost doubled...
Oklahomans were sorry to see Alessandro go. After studying in Rome and Salzburg, he had headed back to the Southwest. At 22, he had taken the WPA-supported Oklahoma State Symphony in hand, built it into a self-supporting outfit (with 4,500 subscribers) that any state could be proud of. Said Daily Oklahoman Critic Tracy Silvester last week: "In an area that has run pretty much to hillbilly and jukebox renditions, he has developed a literate orchestra [public] through sheer grit in presenting only what he thought was good music...