Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Staying clear of the High Renaissance masterpieces, the Lehmans on their regular summer trips to Europe sought out bargains to their taste, rapidly expanded the collection to include other Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish masters (including the prize of the collection, Petrus Christus' The Legend of St. Eligius and St. Godeberta, bought for $144,000 in 1921), filled it in with matching period pieces of Renaissance furniture, tapestries and majolica plates. Robert Lehman, who as a boy accompanied his parents on their art forays, exults: "It was a fascinating way to get an education...
Scheuer's service, which began four years ago, includes a bylined column on TV news and gossip, plus a sidedish of questions and answers about television. Three months ago he also blossomed out as a regular morning-after TV critic for New York's Daily Mirror (which runs his previews too). Thus in the case of a single TV show, he sometimes reads the script, attends the dress rehearsal, writes an advance report-and then reviews the finished product...
...mesh seat chatting with Stapp and the scientists by radio, while they watched the readings of instruments that monitored his pulse, breathing and heartbeat. As everything was checked and rechecked for the start of the flight, Kittinger kept reporting, "No sweat. No sweat." Stapp says: "His heartbeats were more regular than the beats of those who monitored them...
...Today in the ratings. TV's best drama factory, Playhouse 90, will replay only the shows it originally did on film, all of them poor. The one CBS experiment will be Monday night's Studio One Summer Theater, a sort of summer-stock version of the regular Studio One, returning live shows with new acting and directing talent. Low-key Comic Peter Lind Hayes will pinch-hit for Godfrey on Talent Scouts, and last summer's hot-pop Baritone Vic ("Da Moan") Damone returns with his caramel-whip tunes for a live hour in Godfrey...
...separate golfers from speculators, the club finally spun off a subsidiary oil company called Westla, gave one share of stock each (estimated value: $2,000) to 802 regular members, thus detached the mineral rights from club membership. The Westla spin-off is expected to drop non-oil club memberships to $6,000. Westla will open drilling bids next month from oil companies, who will ask city permission for 30 wells on the 311-acre club. If the city approves, Westla will collect at least 32% royalties; the club will get $50,000 annually for ten years. For those golfers...