Word: owes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everything I've done so far I owe to my American schooling," says the head of a major Turkish advertising agency who went to the University of Wisconsin. The story is familiar to Mandayam A. Sreedhar, 35, one of India's most brilliant engineers. What he learned at the universities of Syracuse and Pennsylvania ('53) was warm belief in "the basic American view that two fellows can start a business in a garage and build it into a multimillion-dollar concern. I have never since found it difficult to understand an American...
...appeared unto me in a dream and commissioned me to give myself to prayer.'' He also has a gift for extracting folding money from his slack-jawed listeners: "Friends, is it not right that I should ask you to help support our work? You don't owe us anything. You write me whether you've got any money or not to send. But if you have something that you can send to us to help pay for our broadcast. God will bless you. You enclose your tithe, a little offering, a donation, whatever the Lord lays...
...Trenches. "Everything I am," says Reder, "I owe to Czernowitz," the Ukrainian city where he was born, the son of a Jewish innkeeper. Czernowitz, now Russian but then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was a town that thrived on folklore and legend, and even the grim periodic pogroms added to the sense of drama. At 17, Reder was drafted into the Austrian army, spent World War I in the trenches as one of the most wretched and incompetent of privates...
...should know. Such distinguished Broadway musicals as On the Town and Candide owe their instrumentation to him, and other arrangements of his are heard repeatedly on television and in the movies. Along with such men as the veteran Robert Russell Bennett (The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Camelot), Don Walker (Carousel, Me and Juliet), and the team of Irwin Kostal and Sid Ramin (West Side Story), Kay is a master arranger in the pop field-a kind of musical midwife whose job it is to take an embryonic hit and nurse it to lusty life. It is a process...
...last week the once peerless puncher, currently shuffling through a semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting a man to the moon, they gonna need the money...