Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script of one recent Ulm play consisted of words viewed through punch cards and spoken under orchestral direction. In another, actors mounted the stage and began reciting the opening chorus, each at his own pace. "Come. See and stand. Lie down. Sleep. Lift, eat, drink and walk. It is light enough to see everything. Hear, talk, speak clearly, breathe, move. Toward, back . . ." Director Claus Bremer, 39, explains it all simply. "If there is nothing more today that is absolute," Bremer says, "then I would like nothing more to be formed onstage that is absolute...
...Judy's Show. The new Times publisher owes his nickname, "Punch," to his father's uninhibited delight in composing light rhymes. When young Arthur was born, it seemed proper that he be linked in verse with his youngest sister Judith. As his father put it: "He came to play at Punch to Judy's endless show...
Schooled at Loomis and Columbia, and twice married, young Punch did two stretches with the Marines in two wars. He served as a cub reporter on the Milwaukee Journal and put in tours at three Times bureaus abroad for short, unnoticeable hitches. He came home to handle chores for his father in the publisher's office-in-plant efficiency and civil defense-then took on the job of assistant treasurer. At 37 he leapfrogged to president and publisher...
...training is not yet complete, the new Times boss can count on a seasoned hierarchy.* And Punch can certainly count on the support of the board. Presided over by his father, the board includes Punch himself and a strong family cast: his mother Iphigene, his sisters Ruth and Marian, and his brother-in-law Richard Cohen. Outsiders on the board include Vice President Bancroft, retired World Banker Eugene Black, and Carr Van Anda's son Paul. The family also holds two-thirds of the voting stock. Patriarch Sulzberger announced the masthead changes last week with understandable assurance...
...Cooper must fall in five," Clay had boasted, and to be exact he made it "1 min. 35 sec. in the fifth." Now he was going to keep that pledge. Refusing to throw even a tentative punch, Clay dropped his arms, began dancing aimlessly around the ring. Up to Clay's corner stormed Bill Faversham, head of the eleven-man Louisville syndicate that has staked Clay to his pro career. "Angie," he yelled to Clay's trainer, Angelo Dundee. "Make him stop clowning." Clay would not listen. He was picking the time...