Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subtract one or two decibels from the continuous spiel of college theatre people, if you seek something akin to the ring of truth (that is). Whether you add or subtract largely depends on which way the warm wind blows; when a number of The Good Woman's company quit in desperation last week, the breeze ran swift and hot. My abacus lost track utterly, trying to keep count amid such blustery meteorology and all. You sometimes wonder why such a modest little show as this one should involve these higher mathematics and unsettling climatics...
...Quit being ashamed and embarrassed," he said. "Don't hide behind the scorn of the professional 'drys.' You have let them shrink you into a gigantic inferiority complex." Pastor Mangrum, who knows his licensed beverages from five years in a Skid Row parish in Detroit, told the tavern owners to join churches and work with community organizations. "If one denomination does not have need of you, except when it wants back-door contributions extracted through implied blackmail . . . you will find that the traditional Christian groups want you and need...
Butter on Turkey. Sixteen years ago, when she was 19, Beverly Pepper was art director of Decca Records Inc. and a fast-rising, horn-rimmed spectacle of success. At 25 she was vice president of a booming advertising agency. Then instinct, and a couple of psychoanalysts, told her to quit while she was ahead. She left for Paris with 32 hats in her luggage, bought blue jeans on Montparnasse and threw the hats away. Last week she was back in Manhattan for an exhibition at the Barone Gallery, which brought close...
...semi-abstract sculptures come to terms with the wood in witty and sensuous ways. Woman and Child (see cut), hunched forms of a mother and her papoose, seem in a separate world, somewhere between the nature of a tree trunk and that of people. Why did she quit business for art? Says she, elliptically: "I like putting butter on turkeys. I like peeling and feeling things. The same with my sculpture. You find a big old root''arid have to marry it to shape your preconceived form...
...fuel supplies (the jets eat up 2,000 gal. of kerosene per hour). American's 1,000 maintenance men must virtually relearn their jobs; the jet training manual alone consists of two volumes four inches thick. ¶ Charles A. Rheinstrom, 56, executive vice president for sales, quit American in 1946 after 18 years, went into advertising, came back this year at Smith's request to take on the job of selling jet seats to the public. In the 1930s Charlie Rheinstrom was the first to meet head on the public fear of flying, which other airlines ignored, with...