Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plump, stubby and explosive fellow on the podium, he took over the Cincinnati Symphony from famed Eugene Ysaÿe, gave it nine of the best years of its life. In Pittsburgh, which he quit last spring after a fight over managerial economies, he was known as a martinet who knew how to command good music. But all these years Fritz Reiner has been hankering for his old love. "A conductor must conduct opera," he says. "His life is not complete unless he does...
Sick Fledgling. Nevertheless, it took stern measures on President Connelly's part to put Southwest in the black. Like most fledglings, Southwest started out top-heavy with vice presidents, quickly lost money. When Jim Ray, the first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...
...also this type of student who gives Holt the biggest headaches. Many of them turn up their noses at $40 a week jobs for less remunerative ones that will keep them in a lower income tax bracket. Others, who work for the pleasure of it are apt to quit at a crucial moment without telling their employees. Needless to say, this does no good to the reputation of the Bureau...
...purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that its first announcement was a hoax to get even with the Turks for their announcement, and 4) Grigor himself announced that all former announcements were greatly...
...little shortsighted about contemporary U.S. artists. The pioneering Whitney Museum, four miles away in Greenwich Village, specializes in the contemporary. It seemed a good idea for the two museums to get together, and for the past five years they had been planning to do it: the Whitney was to quit its downtown quarters, move into a new wing at ,he well-heeled Metropolitan. But last week the deal was called off. Both sides issued explanations...