Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholarly George Marek got the music habit early. The son of a Viennese dentist, he haunted the Vienna Opera as a child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For a time he worked in Manhattan in a millinery house, where he was assigned to the ostrich-feather department. Before long, Marek gave up feathers for advertising, became a vice president of the J. D. Tarcher Agency, spent his days writing copy (Coty, Smith Bros.) and his nights as the regular...
...final broadcast last week, Freed waded through crowds of sobbing teenagers, comforted them ("Now don't cry"), accepted a bound scroll from a group of record distributors in thanks for his services. What services? Had he ever taken payola? No, said Freed, but to supplement his regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with two teen-aged girls at once, accepted a subpoena to face the New York County grand jury, declared: Payola "may stink...
Meanwhile, regular checks (marked "promotion") came in from other companies, and Clay listed them for the income tax men. "Can I send you something every month?" payolateers would ask. "That isn't necessary," was Clay's stock reply, "but go ahead if you want to." The wages of spin almost doubled his yearly salary...
...small families agree that the price is right, but large families often find prepared food portions too small, priced too high to buy in quantity. Gourmet foods are almost uniformly expensive. Yet a U.S. Department of Agriculture study showed that if a typical consumer bought $100 worth of regular foods, they would cost him only 61? less than if he had bought the serviced equivalent. The food industry points out that the extra costs of "conveniencing" foods can be considered the expense of maid service. Says Charlie Mortimer: "If you compute the relative costs of the two types of meals...
...regular sales force Eaton added a staff of "silent salesmen," as he called the works of art he assembled at Forest Lawn. The first of these was Edith Barrett Parson's Duck Baby, later followed by a vast sculpture group called The Mystery of Life, in which 22 figures watch a baby chick as it hatches out of an egg. From Europe, Eaton also brought back plans of three famous British churches-the one where Gray wrote his Elegy, the one where, according to legend, Annie Laurie prayed for her lost lover, the one where Kipling was (possibly) inspired...