Word: ponts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their own shows this season, Liebman kept on for the spectaculars the veteran technical staff that had run Your Show of Shows for more than five years: a permanent group of 16 dancers and twelve singers, and such top professionals as Scene Designer Frederick Fox, Costume Designer Paul Du-Pont, Music Director Charles Sanford and Associate Producer Bill Hobin. With this well-coordinated team, Liebman has landed eight of his twelve color spectaculars in the Nielsen top ten TV shows...
...Steel Corp.'s earnings for the comparable period went up 27%, to $17,781,218. Goodyear's final-quarter earnings reached $16,256.508 (v. $14,001,706 in 1953); Goodrich's hit $11,444,008, up more than $2,000,000 from the year before. Du Pont's fourth-quarter earnings doubled, to $2.59 a share; for the full year, profits rose from $4.94 a share in 1953 to $7.33 (from Du Pont's operations: $5.30; from General Motors dividends...
Acres under Glass. William Penn granted the tract (in 1702) to one George Peirce, whose descendants imported bricks from England to build a small manor, later sheltered runaway slaves. In 1906, when Du Pont bought the 950-acre estate, "Peirce's Park" was already a pretty arboretum. Du Pont money transformed it into an American Versailles. Du Pont spent $500,000 for fountains, built $2 million worth of greenhouses to put three acres under glass. Admiring the water gardens of Italy's Villa Gamberaia near Florence, he copied them at Longwood-adding lakes and canals...
...Pont was fond of organ music but was also hard of hearing, so he built one of the most formidable organs on earth, incorporating a percussion division, harps, celesta, drums, xylophone, tympani, tambourine, tom-tom. Chinese gong and 11,000 pipes, ranging from pencil size (8,000 vibrations a second) to one 34 feet tall and weighing a long ton (13 vibrations a second). Mrs. du Pont could hear...
Gilt-Edged Lilies. For amateur theatricals (often by Philadelphia's socialite Savoyards), Du Pont built an outdoor theater with 62-ft. stage, arboreal wings and a curtain that rises instead of falling after each act (a screen of water gushing upward from hidden fountains). Elsewhere, batteries of. fountains play in intricate patterns, illuminated at night by masses of colored floodlights-red, blue, green, flame, flesh pink and moonlight tones. The fountains can spray water at the rate of 840,000 gallons hourly; a single fountain, Old Faithful, shoots jets 140 feet high or fanning out 100 feet wide...